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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Folsom, Ca
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Battery light on and loss tach & vitals? SOS '88 3.2 62K miles
Hey guys I could use your help and brain power for a minute….. I don’t know if it’s the fact my car has been sitting for nearly 2 weeks In the garage or what but my otherwise perfect running ’88 cab did something weird today. Current situation.. 1) My (Battery icon) came on after a 20 minute easy drive some freeway then through town on the way back, car running beautiful. I pull up to our neighborhood cluster mailbox get out and leave the car idling while I collect my mail from the box. I get back in and am immediately greeted with the (Battery) idiot light on?? Everything still good and motor purring I continue on to the house less than 1/8 mile down the road, or 1/2 around the block when I loose the tach? Drops to zero, but the motor is still running…. I open the garage and pull in and park, car still idling fine and lose all the vitals oil-pressure, oil level, gas, clock etc… radio is still working though and so are the mirrors and windows? Previous owner replaced the Alternator & Battery some 4-5K miles ago I’m knee deep in the mud right now and slowly sinking any guesses? Car still starts and turns over fine.
Thanks in advance -Ryan
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03-18-2008, 07:31 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Folsom, Ca
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I don't know if it makes a difference but my birthday was last week and my wife got me an ipod, today was the first time using it with the 911. It works with an adapter that plugs into the cigarette lighter. Not sure if it was related but I had to pull it out and adjust it a few minutes before I got the idiot lamp on the dash?
-Ryan
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03-18-2008, 07:35 PM
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Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: Hickory NC USA
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1st check is the fan belt. Then the multipin connector in the engine bay on the drivers side.
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03-18-2008, 07:38 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Folsom, Ca
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Ok found the culprit, my No. 11 fuse was burned out. Turns out my ipod plugged into the cigarette outlet is too powerful for a 20 year old 911, guess I'm going to have to make an appointment to have it hard wired in. Thanks for the help anyway, I was about to have an ulcer, everything is back to working like it should.
-Ryan
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body,but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" < '88 Porsche Carrera Cabriolet Sold > |
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