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Tiny
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My car has a new battery, starter, alternator, and computer but is still having issues of keeping the battery charged, once the battery is dead so is the car I took car in for a dignostic they said there were no bad wires it was the computer that was bad after getting the computer still having the issues as before
Monday, February 13th, 2012 AT 12:14 AM

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Tiny
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Have both battery and alternator load tested -if okay check and test the wiring also could be a short circuit causing it when it drains overnite or?
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Monday, February 13th, 2012 AT 12:19 AM
Tiny
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Yes battery is brand new and ive change alternator 2 times bc when I took it in they said it was bad. And it was new :(. The wiring is good says the place were I took it to get tested. Is it possible I could have another bad alternator?
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Monday, February 13th, 2012 AT 12:23 AM
Tiny
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The problem here could be the computer controlled of the alternator field generation, which is built into the computer
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Monday, February 13th, 2012 AT 1:13 AM
Tiny
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So does that mean a bad computer?
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Monday, February 13th, 2012 AT 3:41 PM
Tiny
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Sounds like it, if the wiring/battery and alternator checks out-
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Monday, February 13th, 2012 AT 3:42 PM
Tiny
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If it was a bad computer would it run at all?
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Monday, February 13th, 2012 AT 4:00 PM
Tiny
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Also the alternator is reading a.01 so that's a bad alternator right? We have changed it 2 times this will be the 3rd time. Now so if I change the alternator and its still doing it I guess taking computer back and getting new one?
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Monday, February 13th, 2012 AT 4:05 PM
Tiny
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Bring it in and have the pro looked at it-before you replace the computer
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Monday, February 13th, 2012 AT 10:55 PM
Tiny
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Well I took it in they said altenator was bad so got a new one when I tok it in it had a new onw so they thought it was bad so it still wasnt holding charge so they did more testing and said it was computer so got a new computer and its stil havin isuse and altenator is testing bad once again
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 AT 1:22 AM

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