Hi. I am xcasper. I have a 74 ghia. You might remember my posts. I am having electrical problems. ?The mechanic I have here is nice, but doesn't seem to have the answer. All my lights and stuff seem to work, but my car doesn't.
- Car not start. Click Click. On my mechanics advice, I replaced my battery last week, ( it fixed it!) then broke again. So, then I went back a couple days ago, and he put a direct lead on my starter to the battery - seemed to think I could use it to hotwire the starter directly. (The car was clicking when I turned the key again) It worked for a day. Then I wen t back to him today, when his hotwire didn't work today,( I got a push start at the paint store.) He listened for a while, and said my starter was toast. So I called Rustybus to see if he had a good starter I could buy. He did, so I thought my fears were laid to rest. I took the ghia to work, and parked on a hill, thinking to get the starter tommorrow. But when I push started it, it would hardly go, and when I checked the headlights they were dim, dim dim. So dim in fact that I had to creep home the 4 miles down a very dark mountain road. Then I had to switch off my headlights entirely, or the beasty wouldn't run at all. That last mile was a long one man. Wow! So my question is, what the *&(*&* do you think it is? Alternator? Could I just be miswired? I mean the car is acting like the battery is dead again, and shouldn't an alternator put out enough juice to fire up the headlights even if the battery is kaput? And I don't see what good replacing the starter will do me if there isn't any juice. Anyway, sorry to bug you guys, but you seemed to know your AC from your DC. Any advice on where to go to sort this cheesebox out here on the lower mainland? Preferable somewhere that won't skin me alive, I have already paid 2 different mechanics actual money ( two hundreds and counting) to tell me they knew what was wrong with this buggy when I really think they had no clue at all. (They haven't actually fixed anything) Thanks and Cheers from Maple Ridge, BC. Steve. :wacko: