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Topic subjectCold Weather,... Engine won't stay On.....
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64626, Cold Weather,... Engine won't stay On.....
Posted by gilee_8, Dec-12-03 05:00 PM
Sup guys.
This is been a while. It's for my g/f Black Eclipse.
Anyway, I did a compression test for my car and her car about 2 weeks ago.
So it drained alot of power from the battery already.
Then she have'nt drive her car at all after that compression test for about 3-4 days.

Then Snow storms, very cold temperature.
Now the car won't stay on when I start the car.
The engine will die away as soon as I start the car IF I DON"T KEEP MY FEET ON THE GAS.
But after a while (sometimes a min, some times after the car warms up complete, sometimes take 20 mins) before I can let go of my feet and the engine will stay up.

Also once I drove on the highway (after this happened) for about 15-20 mins then the next day, the car works .....then after thta it died again. Is that the battery is old? alternator? or just not charged?

THanks.
GIl
64634, RE: Cold Weather,... Engine won't stay On.....
Posted by WickedESi, Dec-13-03 05:11 AM
You pretty much answered your own question.

It sounds like your alternator is bad, and your battery is on it's way out too.
64635, RE: Cold Weather,... Engine won't stay On.....
Posted by gilee_8, Dec-13-03 06:18 AM
you sure it's bad? coz otherwise, why after I started my car for a while, it charges up again?
Or is it just that I haven'et drive the car long enough?
THanks.
64636, RE: Cold Weather,... Engine won't stay On.....
Posted by eclipse_99rs, Dec-13-03 06:44 AM
yah the same thing happened to me when i had my probe the altinator went bad and i could only drive untill the battery drained and made my car shut off.