Did you get pulled over on University tonight?

[1slowdsm]

I was down there in my uncle's GTO. I got there a little before 9 and there were hardly anyone down there, so I went back home. I'll be down there every once in a while ONCE my car starts go run. Not looking forward to a ticket...so I wont be down there every weekend. I heard there's TONS of people down there too.

[MATCHBX]

Craig, you don't want to do that with a computer controlled car. You can screw up the ecu that way.

[TheBlizzard]

Craig, you don't want to do that with a computer controlled car. You can screw up the ecu that way.
Do what? Pull the battery terminals with the car running? News to me, I have done it tons of times with no ill effects.

CRAIG

[MATCHBX]

On older cars it's fine. It can damage the ecu's in newer cars. Ask any certified mechanic.

I used to do it on my older cars as well.

If you can charge the battery, charge it up and drive to the local service station or autostore. They have a load tester that can tell you if it's your battery or alternator. And if your battery goes down before you leave, they can charge it for you so you can get home.

[GSXMatt]

Where does everyone from here go if they do go down there? It would be nice to match the S/N with a face...and car.

[john]

I would do the quick and easy check with jump starting it. I would jump it, and take the jumper cables off the car after it is started. If the car dies, then it is the alternator as the battery doesn't have any charge.

Or you can go to checker and they can perform the test for you. I did that and hardly made it home. I would rather do the quick test in my garage.

[TheBlizzard]

Huh. We actually agree on something? It must be getting warmer out and that is effecting our judgement.

CRAIG

[MATCHBX]

Yeah, but he's talking about taking the jumper cables off, not the battery cables. Little bit of a difference. The system remains grounded properly with the battery cables still attached. But I won't go off on a tangent anymore about it.

[A//// Guy]

Yea you can mess up alot more than just the ECU if you have aftermarket electronics wired into your system because they will be getting power from the ecu or wiring hooked up to the alternator but not from battery sources. My car has quite a few wires coming straight off the battery and I wouldnt pull those off with the car running.

Just have checker load test your battery and also check the alternator.

[Shotgun!]

I sit at Porkys. We used to sit at the checker but they were over run with VWs and other gay things.