Dead Battery and Possibly Effed Alt

[Davyboy]

Well my battery is completely dead, and I'm suspecting that a dead alternator may be the culprit behind it, though I thought it was charging properly, so perhaps the alt is good...

If the amp is good, I'm officially confused, the battery is new may of 2009...

So my only other guess is that this effed up weather we have been having, the temperature has been varying almost 20C over such short times, this morning -25C and two hours later it was only -5C so it could have screwed something...

Amp has had fuze/REM pulled with the cold so that it wouldn't get wrecked so I have no idea what else can be bad...

 

[ravingmadman]

Charge up your battery, drive to your local parts house, and have them do an electrical system check.

 

[blueflamed03]

they can seperatly check the alt and battery, to see if they are good.

 

[drowndindreams]

sometimes batteries short and the alternator goes out with it

 

[Davyboy]

Good old AMA, called them, they checked, alt good, battery dead...
And when they jumped me, the culprit seemed to yell, HEY LOOK AT ME...

It was that little emergency light under the hood, the one you can move around to see in the dark incase of a break down, yeah you know the one, the one that has NEVER WORKED in my truck...

Yeah the bugger decided to randomly work, and for some reason, while it must have been in the off position for close to a year, it worked as of yesterday, and left me with a dead battery as of today...

Have it hooked to a trickle charger now, it wouldn't even turn anything, barely had enough juice to beep when the keys were in the ignition...

 

[blueflamed03]

good you found it....