UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. - Car Talk (2)

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Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by sultaan(m): 5:18am On Oct 12, 2015

Alternator and battery do crazy things to car electronics.

or ground wire fault

check starter, battery and alternator for starts I think I still have the chilton manual for it let know what you find

Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by GAZZUZZ(m): 5:27am On Oct 12, 2015

Coldplay007:
Check your alternator.

Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by Coldplay007(f): 6:36am On Oct 12, 2015

GAZZUZZ:

Lol. What? grin

Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by GAZZUZZ(m): 7:03am On Oct 12, 2015

Coldplay007:
Lol. What?

You think say nah pet section?

Prescribing heatbalm for headache tongue

Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by cocoduck: 7:08am On Oct 12, 2015

If you can get a Factory service manual, you have half solved the problem, I think very seriously that this is a ground problem, because when one ground has developed a high resistance, the components will try to route the current flow from another ground wire thereby turning on other components connected to those wires, therefore get a factory service manual and get directions for all the ground points in the car, also I may add that the lock cylinder has something to do with this, the bottom line is that factory service manual.

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Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by cocoduck: 7:22am On Oct 12, 2015

in addition, One thing is certain, the problem is a kind of intermittent, so there may be a short circuit on one of those wires so check the wire harnesses and separate them, in situations like this I wish I had an ect2000

Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by cocoduck: 7:29am On Oct 12, 2015

go to YouTube.com and type Scotty Kilmer fixing strange auto electrical problems

Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by femicousim: 1:46am On Oct 13, 2015

BluStreak:
Ah! Make una see me see wahala o. Who wan come help me fix this one for naija? I sleep and wake up in google now and various auto forums. Majority are saying check the ground. I have loosened and cleaned thre ground still that didn't help. Na wah o.

it's not just 1 ground you have in vehicle, it's true you've short-to-ground or short-to-power problem, and it needs serious wire tracing. let's talk

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Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by nissparts(m): 2:57am On Oct 13, 2015

Change, not clean, the battery wires, including terminals.
If the terminal comes with fuses, check there first

Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by cocoduck: 8:56am On Oct 13, 2015

femicousim:
it's not just 1 ground you have in vehicle, it's true you've short-to-ground or short-to-power problem, and it needs serious wire tracing. let's talk

yes wires, check the fuses first

Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by BluStreak(op): 12:58pm On Oct 13, 2015

mayor2013:
You are closer to my garage. Check my signature to reach me

Bro the car naaah isnt in a good shape except me risking driving it with ODBII scanner connected. That seems like a one-way-to-hell which I don wanna try. Meanwhile wherez ya garage located? Your sigie didnt leave much.

Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by BluStreak(op): 1:06pm On Oct 13, 2015

cocoduck:
If you can get a Factory service manual, you have half solved the problem, I think very seriously that this is a ground problem, because when one ground has developed a high resistance, the components will try to route the current flow from another ground wire thereby turning on other components connected to those wires, therefore get a factory service manual and get directions for all the ground points in the car, also I may add that the lock cylinder has something to do with this, the bottom line is that factory service manual.

I have a factory service manual I downloaded but its for the 1998 model. Though they share the same engine and some similarities in the dash, I doubt if component locations outside the engine are one and same. Av tried unsuccessfully to download the 2000 - 2002 models service manual to no avail. I wish someone has got one.

Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by mayor2013: 7:57pm On Oct 13, 2015

BluStreak:
Bro the car naaah isnt in a good shape except me risking driving it with ODBII scanner connected. That seems like a one-way-to-hell which I don wanna try. Meanwhile wherez ya garage located? Your sigie didnt leave much.

Its located at Igando. Akesan bustop precisely

Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by BluStreak(op): 7:53pm On Oct 14, 2015

mayor2013:
Its located at Igando. Akesan bustop precisely

Yeeeeeeh!

You own that superb body shop at Akesan Bus Stop? Av 4gotten the name of the body shop. I have my eyes on that place to give that car a makeover o. What should I be looking at for a full body makeover?

Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by mayor2013: 10:07pm On Oct 14, 2015

BluStreak:
Yeeeeeeh! You own that superb body shop at Akesan Bus Stop? Av 4gotten the name of the body shop. I have my eyes on that place to give that car a makeover o. What should I be looking at for a full body makeover?

Not @ all. Different from mine. Only body works are done there

Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by makavele: 10:43pm On Oct 14, 2015

BluStreak:
Yeeeeeeh! You own that superb body shop at Akesan Bus Stop? Av 4gotten the name of the body shop. I have my eyes on that place to give that car a makeover o. What should I be looking at for a full body makeover?

if your instrument cluster (gauges) are flickering and moving erratically . . you have a ground problem . . could be corroded battery terminal or broken cables . . .

but since you confirmed your radio/clock resets and doesn't work sometimes, it's a fault of the BCM - body control module . . .
as mayor said, cos it controls almost all electrical parts asides engine and transmission . . . they hardly go bad, but yes, they do like most parts ..

if you were submerged in flood, your IPDM (intelligent power distribution module) might be toast. . . some vehicles allow you to do an auto-cycle test to confirm if the IPDM is working or dead . . . Google it

#my2cents . . .

Re: UPDATED: Heeeeelp With Car Gone Wild. by BluStreak(op): 1:10pm On Oct 15, 2015

makavele:
if your instrument cluster (gauges) are flickering and moving erratically . . you have a ground problem . . could be corroded battery terminal or broken cables . . .

but since you confirmed your radio/clock resets and doesn't work sometimes, it's a fault of the BCM - body control module . . .
as mayor said, cos it controls almost all electrical parts asides engine and transmission . . . they hardly go bad, but yes, they do like most parts ..

if you were submerged in flood, your IPDM (intelligent power distribution module) might be toast. . . some vehicles allow you to do an auto-cycle test to confirm if the IPDM is working or dead . . . Google it

#my2cents . . .

Thanks bro. I,ll give that a shot on saturday.

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