[bowtieforlife]

my car is acting up when i start it. when car is running everything is functional all electrical lighting and mechanical. but as soon as i shut my car off and wait about a minute the car barely turns over but will still start very slowly. what could be causing this???

[me6894]

bowtieforlife, on 20 April 2010 - 11:00 PM, said:

my car is acting up when i start it. when car is running everything is functional all electrical lighting and mechanical. but as soon as i shut my car off and wait about a minute the car barely turns over but will still start very slowly. what could be causing this???

Have your battery tested.

[bowtieforlife]

thats what i was thinking thanks for the help. one other thing is it worth spending the extra change to get an optima or would a nicer commercial work just as good??

[me6894]

bowtieforlife, on 20 April 2010 - 11:11 PM, said:

thats what i was thinking thanks for the help. one other thing is it worth spending the extra change to get an optima or would a nicer commercial work just as good??

optimas are a waste unless you want it for weight savings as a race battery or have a very large stereo

[Dbl_D718]

x2. If all you need it to do is start your car, you don't need an Optima.

[nitehawkjcb]

+1 on testing your battery. It's probably about to go out on you. Just get a regular replacement battery, those Optimas or whatever they are cost wayyy to much for a stock vehicle.

[bowtieforlife]

alright yeah i believe its the same battery from the factory i bought it used and the guy said it was the original battery so best quess would be maybe my battery but i wanted to make sure im not shotgunning things into my car and end up with a thousand dollar bill. yeah i dont have much for a system just 2 12's and a 300 watt amp sounds just fine to me not to much and not to little so i dont think i'd need an optima for something that small.

[zipper778]

Make sure you test your battery to know, just in case. I'm surprised your factory battery lasted so long. Mine went out 4 years ago, lol.

[bowtieforlife]

haha same here and they say usually a battery needs to be replaced every 4 years

[bowtieforlife]

battery was tested it looked okay because when car was off battery tested at around 12.56V and then when car was on it test 13.6somethingV but one thing that confused me was when i put the battery on a load it dropped to 9.58V so does this mean i have possibly lost a cell and or my cold cranking amps are gone??? 13 year old battery so im thinking its time to get a new one since the alternator is fine

[me6894]

bowtieforlife, on 23 April 2010 - 08:20 AM, said:

battery was tested it looked okay because when car was off battery tested at around 12.56V and then when car was on it test 13.6somethingV but one thing that confused me was when i put the battery on a load it dropped to 9.58V so does this mean i have possibly lost a cell and or my cold cranking amps are gone??? 13 year old battery so im thinking its time to get a new one since the alternator is fine

Volts don't mean sh*t for starting. What were the CCAs?

[bowtieforlife]

whatever 9.58V equals was my CCA that was under a load

[me6894]

bowtieforlife, on 23 April 2010 - 02:26 PM, said:

whatever 9.58V equals was my CCA that was under a load

?

Volts don't equal CCAs. CCA is cold cranking amps, its how many amps are available on a cold battery to start the car and has nothing to do with putting the car under a load. You need to test this with an actual battery tester not a volt meter.

[bowtieforlife]

yeah i know what CCA means have for a while but what i was trying to say which i didnt write by accident is if 9.58V can be converted into CCA's by some formula thats what i was trying to get at. the tester i used digital multi meter. so thats what i was trying to get and plus i really doubt a good battery dips down below 10 with a load on it. i got buddies with loud subs and car off and everything turned up their caps only read down to about 10.2-10.4 then of course shoot back up once it stops. so i think and hope its my battery

[Dbl_D718]

Go to Autozone/Advance Auto and have them test your charging system. They can do more than just use a DMM on it and it's free.

[me6894]

bowtieforlife, on 23 April 2010 - 03:08 PM, said:

yeah i know what CCA means have for a while but what i was trying to say which i didnt write by accident is if 9.58V can be converted into CCA's by some formula thats what i was trying to get at. the tester i used digital multi meter. so thats what i was trying to get and plus i really doubt a good battery dips down below 10 with a load on it. i got buddies with loud subs and car off and everything turned up their caps only read down to about 10.2-10.4 then of course shoot back up once it stops. so i think and hope its my battery

I don't think you do know what CCA means. You can't convert amps to volts, they measure two different things. That's like converting feet to gallons.

[Dbl_D718]

me6894, on 23 April 2010 - 04:19 PM, said:

You can't convert amps to volts

No, but using Ohm's law you can calculate one from the other if you know resistance.

[NiftyMonte]

if you know the battery is bad and its 13 years old... why not just buy a new one? i think its time.

and yes dbl_d is right, you can do the conversion.

[me6894]

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and yes dbl_d is right, you can do the conversion.

not a conversion, a calculation

[NiftyMonte]

me6894, on 23 April 2010 - 11:33 PM, said:

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and yes dbl_d is right, you can do the conversion.

not a conversion, a calculation

you can convert your volts to amps by doing the calculation...

[Dbl_D718]

It's not a conversion, it's a calculation. A conversion is something miles to kilometers, different units of the same measurement. Amps and volts are not the same measurement.

[NiftyMonte]

The guy needs a new battery.

edit: for spelling

This post has been edited by NiftyMonte: 24 April 2010 - 09:43 AM

[Cully77]

wtf?

[me6894]

NiftyMonte, on 24 April 2010 - 01:41 AM, said:

Ok, who gives a sh*t, really? I didn't know this site was full of grammer nazis. The guy needs a new battery.

Someone forgot their midol this morning...

[NiftyMonte]

my bad

[bowtieforlife]

thanks for the info everyone just bought a new battery nothing special set me back 46 bucks so i couldnt complain.

[NiftyMonte]

who ever put a minus on all my posts, you forgot one

[Travis]

Cully77, on 24 April 2010 - 12:43 AM, said:

wtf?

Haha a random wtf from cully brings total sense to the whole thread lol