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Old Aug 2, 2009 | 01:14 PM
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I got my car tuned yesterday by English Racing, and they did a great job! I loved the tune and everything was awesome. Last night I went to the drive in and watched a movie and ran the radio on battery power for 2 hours. I turned my car on when it was time to leave, and now I'm having a ton of wierd problems. My battery light is coming on with my brake light, and staying on while I drive. They get dim and then when I accelerate they get bright. The headlights are either coming on and immediately going off, or only one comes on. The ABS light comes on and flashes then goes off when I hit the brakes. And my boost lowered from 22.5 to 20. I talked to Lucas and he said it's not related to the tune, so I'm wondering if anyone can let me know what's going on, or how to fix it.

I'm going down to have them look at it again today, but it's a super long drive for me so if anyone can help, please do.

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Old Aug 2, 2009 | 01:18 PM
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From: somewhere testing various tires, brakes, and suspensions.
Killed the battery. Take it out, get it tested at an auto parts store. Replace if needed.
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Old Aug 2, 2009 | 01:25 PM
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Killed the battery. Take it out, get it tested at an auto parts store. Replace if needed.
That's what I was thinkin but the car is starting up just fine, and the battery health signal thing is still blue saying its ok though...
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Old Aug 2, 2009 | 02:01 PM
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Battery.......
It's easy to take it to an auto parts store to be checked, especially if it's a long drive for English to look at it. FWIW
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Old Aug 2, 2009 | 02:07 PM
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Battery.......
It's easy to take it to an auto parts store to be checked, especially if it's a long drive for English to look at it. FWIW
Alright, we'll be taking it to Schucks then to get it checked out. I'll post what they say on here.

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Old Aug 2, 2009 | 09:53 PM
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Bought a new battery and that seemed to fix things. While replacing it, I noticed that the connection on one of the terminals on the positive side was loose, possibly the cause of all of this...

Thanks for all the help!
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Old Aug 3, 2009 | 05:30 PM
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Sounds like the culprit. Hope you get things worked out.
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