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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 07:48 PM
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a week ago my car died after i stopped to get some food, story goes like this
i have a new braille battery thats about 1 month old and i drive at least 60 miles everyday

drove about 5 miles from my house to i forgot where and the CEL turns on while i was on the freeway
i go to my friends shop and read the codes,
3 codes: both o2 sensor heater malfunction (something like that) and lean operation at WOT
i thought is was my test pipe
so i continue driving to go get food and turned off the car
get back in car and car won't start, i call aaa and get jumped, car starts right up
drive for 3 blocks and all hell breaks loose, eps light comes on abs light comes on, i loose power steering and then my dash lights start to flicker,
i pull over and get it towed to my friends shop
i tell him to replace the alternator cause i didn't think it was the battery
he replaces it with a honda reman alt
car starts up and is fine, alt is putting out 14.x and battery is good
i just picked up the car today and drive it home
THE SAME SH*T happens

HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 07:51 PM
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That may be a grounding issue. I had the same sort of thing happen in another car i owned (not an S) and it turned out that my main grounding strap to the engine got ripped off somehow.
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 07:44 AM
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thats supahman04, i checked that and its still good
N E One else??? please
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 09:58 AM
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Try a different battery.
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 01:19 PM
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Could be a bad ground on the battery. Also check all the contections on the alternator and check the belt and the belt tensioner.
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Old Aug 7, 2008 | 07:07 PM
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Already put my .02 cents in. I still think a ground somewhere is the issue though.
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Old Aug 7, 2008 | 07:14 PM
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perform a voltage drop test across all connections. your mechanic should know how to do this.
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Old Aug 8, 2008 | 09:13 AM
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found that problem, it was the o2 sensor wires shorting out the alternator fuse (ACC fuse), making alternator no work, thanks for all the help guys
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