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Well dang, it's 12 degrees here and .....
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Mine died last weekMy alternator doesn't look like it's working. The battery light is on and the gauge is showing lower than it usually does. Nothing is open here and it's too cold to work on it. Damn!
Garage replaced it, and recommended a battery tender, because I don't drive enough.
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My alternator doesn't look like it's working. The battery light is on and the gauge is showing lower than it usually does. Nothing is open here and it's too cold to work on it. Damn!
Better hunker down til tomorrow, and keep your faucets dripping.
Piss on it and quickly try to turn it over...My alternator doesn't look like it's working. The battery light is on and the gauge is showing lower than it usually does. Nothing is open here and it's too cold to work on it. Damn!
/----/ Throw a electric blanket over the engine for an hour and that should help you get it started. You may also have water in the gas line that has frozen.My alternator doesn't look like it's working. The battery light is on and the gauge is showing lower than it usually does. Nothing is open here and it's too cold to work on it. Damn!
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You need to learn who to write in a more descriptive manner. For example, what is the "it" you refer to? And, what is it I should "turn over"? I mean this isn't a blow up doll or anything.Piss on it and quickly try to turn it over...My alternator doesn't look like it's working. The battery light is on and the gauge is showing lower than it usually does. Nothing is open here and it's too cold to work on it. Damn!
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It starts and runs fine, it's just the battery Icon is lit up and and the gauge shows it not charging. I'll check it out tomorrow probably and see if any wires are broke and if it has got 12 volts to it from the battery. If so the the ALT is bad./----/ Throw a electric blanket over the engine for an hour and that should help you get it started. You may also have water in the gas line that has frozen.My alternator doesn't look like it's working. The battery light is on and the gauge is showing lower than it usually does. Nothing is open here and it's too cold to work on it. Damn!
How to Start a Car in Cold Weather | YourMechanic Advice
-17 with 35 below windchill out my door.
I don't want to venture out for 3 months.
Gonna be a rough week.
Work outdoors.
I don't want to venture out for 3 months.
Gonna be a rough week.
Work outdoors.
My wife's Toyota was just a loose connection when we had same issue. Bat cable was a double connection and was just a little loose.It starts and runs fine, it's just the battery Icon is lit up and and the gauge shows it not charging. I'll check it out tomorrow probably and see if any wires are broke and if it has got 12 volts to it from the battery. If so the the ALT is bad./----/ Throw a electric blanket over the engine for an hour and that should help you get it started. You may also have water in the gas line that has frozen.My alternator doesn't look like it's working. The battery light is on and the gauge is showing lower than it usually does. Nothing is open here and it's too cold to work on it. Damn!
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You should call the 1-800 Al Gore # and register a complaint. ..... 
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Minus 9 here, as in below zero...
-9
it was -13 in the wee hours...
Texas oil companies have gotta be loving Matt and me.... we've got the oil heat cranked up so high, the oil heating system has got to be guzzling it! We are getting poorer by the minute and the Texan oil men are getting richer!
-9
it was -13 in the wee hours...
Texas oil companies have gotta be loving Matt and me.... we've got the oil heat cranked up so high, the oil heating system has got to be guzzling it! We are getting poorer by the minute and the Texan oil men are getting richer!
WTF were you saying didn't work on yer car? Sheesh you guys with early onset of dementia are aggravating...You need to learn who to write in a more descriptive manner. For example, what is the "it" you refer to? And, what is it I should "turn over"? I mean this isn't a blow up doll or anything.Piss on it and quickly try to turn it over...My alternator doesn't look like it's working. The battery light is on and the gauge is showing lower than it usually does. Nothing is open here and it's too cold to work on it. Damn!
Be sure ta check for amps...It starts and runs fine, it's just the battery Icon is lit up and and the gauge shows it not charging. I'll check it out tomorrow probably and see if any wires are broke and if it has got 12 volts to it from the battery. If so the the ALT is bad./----/ Throw a electric blanket over the engine for an hour and that should help you get it started. You may also have water in the gas line that has frozen.My alternator doesn't look like it's working. The battery light is on and the gauge is showing lower than it usually does. Nothing is open here and it's too cold to work on it. Damn!
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Volts. Volts.Be sure t check for amps...It starts and runs fine, it's just the battery Icon is lit up and and the gauge shows it not charging. I'll check it out tomorrow probably and see if any wires are broke and if it has got 12 volts to it from the battery. If so the the ALT is bad./----/ Throw a electric blanket over the engine for an hour and that should help you get it started. You may also have water in the gas line that has frozen.My alternator doesn't look like it's working. The battery light is on and the gauge is showing lower than it usually does. Nothing is open here and it's too cold to work on it. Damn!
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You drive a Chevy Volt?It doesn't have an alternator they put in a generator...Which is really what and alternator does...Volts. Volts.Be sure t check for amps...It starts and runs fine, it's just the battery Icon is lit up and and the gauge shows it not charging. I'll check it out tomorrow probably and see if any wires are broke and if it has got 12 volts to it from the battery. If so the the ALT is bad./----/ Throw a electric blanket over the engine for an hour and that should help you get it started. You may also have water in the gas line that has frozen.My alternator doesn't look like it's working. The battery light is on and the gauge is showing lower than it usually does. Nothing is open here and it's too cold to work on it. Damn!
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No I don't drive a volt, why would you think that? I ain't driving anything because my alt-nator isn't alt-right. bad.You drive a Chevy Volt?It doesn't have an alternator they put in a generator...Which is really what and alternator does...Volts. Volts.Be sure t check for amps...It starts and runs fine, it's just the battery Icon is lit up and and the gauge shows it not charging. I'll check it out tomorrow probably and see if any wires are broke and if it has got 12 volts to it from the battery. If so the the ALT is bad./----/ Throw a electric blanket over the engine for an hour and that should help you get it started. You may also have water in the gas line that has frozen.My alternator doesn't look like it's working. The battery light is on and the gauge is showing lower than it usually does. Nothing is open here and it's too cold to work on it. Damn!
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Feels like -10 here. I’d better get dressed and make sure my car starts.
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