John Sanders experienced a dead battery, and even after a jump start the
engine would die if the lights were turned on. Philip Ethier opines that
the battery voltage was too low to run both the engine and the lights; he
suggests alternator failure. Philip is surely right about the low
voltage, but the primary problem could also be in the battery
(acknowledged to be cheap). Although JS tried a replacement, it did not
have enough voltage fully charged to start the car, so it was not a good
test.
Much the same thing happened to me in my H***** (non-british, well almost
non british--it's getting hard to say, car name omitted) Prelude. It was
a catastrophic internal failure of the battery. Just say no to cheap
batteries.
Ray "It's a wintery wonderland here" Gibbons
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