[MBZ] No Glow, No Start, Car Far from Home

[Bob Rentfro]

It was a bad battery...a bad, undersized battery.

Bob Rentfro

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marshall Booth" <mbooth+ at pitt.edu>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] No Glow, No Start, Car Far from Home


> Bob Rentfro wrote:
>> I came out to my car tonight after having worked my 6th 12 hour shift in 
>> a row at the old nuke plant...wanting nothing more than to get home, 
>> clean up and have a cocktail...and the old girl wouldn't start. I turned 
>> the key, got about a 0.5 second glow light then a faint buzz from beneath 
>> the dash somewhere (my seatbely alarm has never worked btw). Turn the 
>> key...nada. I checked the silver relays under the black cover on the 
>> wheelwell by the cruise control and they were seated well in their place, 
>> but the red wire going to the most forward one had come out of its 
>> connector. Those relays look identical. Is one the glow plug relay?
>>
>> Remember...my car is 45 miles from my home.
>> So...
>> If you were going to go and rescue it tomorrow, what would you take to be 
>> successful?  I'm thinking a new battery (I'm due...it had shown a little 
>> weakening lately) at least. What about those relays? I had no precursors 
>> of trouble at all.
>>
>> Any ideas? I get one whole day off to get 'er going again before I get to 
>> do a 5 days on, 1 day off, 4 nights on, one night off, 4 nights on 
>> stretch.
>>
>
> Probably bad battery. They fail most often in HOT weather.
>
> Marshall
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