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] Well it finally happened to me.(Well my wife). She had to be towed home because of a dead battery.She said it was clicking and dash lights were flickering and headlights were dim and so on. This is a 2002 zx5 with ztech engine. Last year the battery finally died and would not hold a charge and it was replaced with the best battery I could buy. When the car got home I pulled the battery and my DVM said 11.8 volts. Pretty low. I hit it with charger and pulled it up to about 13v and started the car. It immediately went to about 12.5v. Hit the lights and down to 12.1. Put heater on high and went to slightly below 12v. No amount of revving of the engine made any difference at all. The thing is the alternator light never came on. Is this normal? It works when just the key is on. I started to pull the alternator but I held up and came here to see if anyone else has had this problem. The fuses in the aux. fuse box are all good and the resistance from the plus side cable to the red lug on the alternator is .1 ohm. Am I missing any thing? I'm gonna call the alternator bad unless someone here has a different opinion. I don't have a spare ECU for this car.[dunno]
] Well it finally happened to me.(Well my wife). She had to be towed home because of a dead battery.She said it was clicking and dash lights were flickering and headlights were dim and so on. This is a 2002 zx5 with ztech engine. Last year the battery finally died and would not hold a charge and it was replaced with the best battery I could buy. When the car got home I pulled the battery and my DVM said 11.8 volts. Pretty low. I hit it with charger and pulled it up to about 13v and started the car. It immediately went to about 12.5v. Hit the lights and down to 12.1. Put heater on high and went to slightly below 12v. No amount of revving of the engine made any difference at all. The thing is the alternator light never came on. Is this normal? It works when just the key is on. I started to pull the alternator but I held up and came here to see if anyone else has had this problem. The fuses in the aux. fuse box are all good and the resistance from the plus side cable to the red lug on the alternator is .1 ohm. Am I missing any thing? I'm gonna call the alternator bad unless someone here has a different opinion. I don't have a spare ECU for this car.[dunno]
