My car keeps dying.

[mdost03]

Originally Posted by dumb_ricer

I had an almost identical problem when I first started driving my DSM.

First I thought loose terminals, so i wiggled them and it was fine for a week or so. Then it happened again, wiggled terminals again, and it was fine. So I cleaned the terminals and tightened them, fine again. Started fucking up again a week later, then became fine. Turned out that somewhere along the line the clamp that clamps the positive lead to the terminal itself was loose, and randomly not getting a good connection. Tightened it and it was fine forever.

Moral of the story? Its something free that got overlooked. Somethings loose along the lines of the starting system more than likely. Could be a ground, or it could be something on the positive side. I'm guessing it may be the same problem I had.

I had that same exact problem on my 2g a while back also. Forgot about that. There is a second "ring" inside of the positive terminal clamp that clamps on the battery terminal that can come out and there was corrosion in between that and the actual terminal clamp so it wasn't getting a good connection all the time. Maybe check out that because I had cleaned my terminal a bunch and it didn't help until I took the terminal apart and cleaned the insides up. Or I would just try new terminal clamps for the wires. Wal-Mart has some good ones for a couple bucks each.