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Today is Wednesday. On Monday, it was raining ...
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Today is Wednesday. On Monday, it was raining fairly heavily. When I was making a right turn, all of a sudden the car went completely dead. I could barely turn the steering wheel to get it out of the way of traffic. All the lights came on for a short time. I turned it off and on again, but it wouldn''t start. I was about to call AAA, but tried again and it started. I had no trouble making more turns on the way home. On Tuesday, it started up but the symbol for the battery came on the went off and it ran fine. I had it checked by local mechanics and they couldn''t find anything wrong with it, the battery is fine. The same thing happened this morning. Did something get wet? What needs to be done?

 

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1999 Chevrolet Malibu 6

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April 30 9:01 AM (16 minutes and 58 seconds later)
         
How mqny times total has this occured?
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April 30 9:07 AM (5 minutes and 42 seconds later)
         
This is the first time.
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April 30 9:14 AM (7 minutes and 10 seconds later)
         
Any answer yet?
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April 30 9:16 AM (2 minutes and 25 seconds later)
         
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It sounds like your alternator may be going bad. When they start to go bad the will work intermintently and you can only find the problem, obviously when its defaulting. I would have the battery tested as well. If the battery checks out fine I would look into getting a new3 alternator just so you dont have to be left stranded to find out you need one.
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April 30 9:18 AM (1 minute and 30 seconds later)
         
Reply to stin1974's Post: I got a new alternator a few years ago. How often do you need a new alternator?
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April 30 9:24 AM (6 minutes and 12 seconds later)
         
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