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Hi All,
My car is having a little trouble atm.
It's a 96 VS S2 Calais. Battery is a 660cca (about 1 year old). Stock alternator. Running usual 4gauge cables around to alternator, battery, engine.
The battery is showing "not charging correctly" or something like that, not holding charge or something I dunno. It's not normal anyway. It's a Supercharge battery which shows Green for good, red for dead, white for charge issue or something.
Anyway, I was driving along the other day, got to the traffic lights and stopped. I have my stereo on (only currently running 4 channel x 70rms amp (4gauge) with some speakers) nothing major at all, (used to also run a mono 2600rms x 1ohm with a sub rated for 2400rms (0gauge), and it hadn't occured before).
When I got to the traffic lights, I wanted to do my windows up and I could see on the dash the light dim, also, when I've driven for awhile and stop at traffic lights my car sometimes looks like its about to stall ... the revs drop and the whole car shakes like wen your about to stall in a manual.
I was thinking a battery or alternator problem, I was running a lot of power before with my sound system with a stock alternator and think maybe my alternator is about to die and not charging properly.
Anyone know the source of the issue? is it the alternator or the battery? or something completely different?
My car is having a little trouble atm.
It's a 96 VS S2 Calais. Battery is a 660cca (about 1 year old). Stock alternator. Running usual 4gauge cables around to alternator, battery, engine.
The battery is showing "not charging correctly" or something like that, not holding charge or something I dunno. It's not normal anyway. It's a Supercharge battery which shows Green for good, red for dead, white for charge issue or something.
Anyway, I was driving along the other day, got to the traffic lights and stopped. I have my stereo on (only currently running 4 channel x 70rms amp (4gauge) with some speakers) nothing major at all, (used to also run a mono 2600rms x 1ohm with a sub rated for 2400rms (0gauge), and it hadn't occured before).
When I got to the traffic lights, I wanted to do my windows up and I could see on the dash the light dim, also, when I've driven for awhile and stop at traffic lights my car sometimes looks like its about to stall ... the revs drop and the whole car shakes like wen your about to stall in a manual.
I was thinking a battery or alternator problem, I was running a lot of power before with my sound system with a stock alternator and think maybe my alternator is about to die and not charging properly.
Anyone know the source of the issue? is it the alternator or the battery? or something completely different?