Hoping to gather some dark of night opinions.
87 GN no electrical power at all, nothing, not even a dim light.
Anybody ever had a battery give up the ghost due to a heat wave?
Just from a fast look in the dark by flashlight, all the connections seem same as ever. car showed no electrical issues recently or ever that I'm aware.
Water levels in the battery cells were a little low in some of the cells; but nothing drastic or even anything that looked like a concern. Only odd thing I noticed was that the water in the batter isn't very caustic/acidic to the touch.
Past 2 days have been fairly hot, hovering around high 90s for the bulk of the daylight hours. Car is usually covered, but hasn't been over these past 2 days.
Is it possible the battery really got cooked? I just never ran across that before or even know anybody who has except those in the extreme sunbelt areas of the states.
Previous owner seemed to know next to nothing about the car, so I always presume the worst anytime there's an issue with parts or previous maintenance.
Battery looks to be some type of Die Hard, I'm guessing a fairly cheap one since that's the history of the car that I do know, simple 6-cell battery with 3 cells on each side.
Car hasn't had any starting issues hot or cold weather.
The only "issue" would be that if it doesn't catch and start on that 1st turn of the key; and if you crank it too fast right after, it will labor to turn and catch. But if you just wait a few seconds before turning the ignition, you would never be aware of that at all.
Sorry, I know that the more experts of the bunch will ask for base numbers to get a better idea of the tune. But I don't have a Scanmaster in it.
The only continuing known issue I know of before this is a bad MAF that has been disconnected for several months now.
Will try to give it a simple basic jump start in the next daylight to see if it will at least turn.
Oh, and while on the subject if you specifically recommend a certain replacement battery please sound out on that too.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts/opinions.
87 GN no electrical power at all, nothing, not even a dim light.
Anybody ever had a battery give up the ghost due to a heat wave?
Just from a fast look in the dark by flashlight, all the connections seem same as ever. car showed no electrical issues recently or ever that I'm aware.
Water levels in the battery cells were a little low in some of the cells; but nothing drastic or even anything that looked like a concern. Only odd thing I noticed was that the water in the batter isn't very caustic/acidic to the touch.
Past 2 days have been fairly hot, hovering around high 90s for the bulk of the daylight hours. Car is usually covered, but hasn't been over these past 2 days.
Is it possible the battery really got cooked? I just never ran across that before or even know anybody who has except those in the extreme sunbelt areas of the states.
Previous owner seemed to know next to nothing about the car, so I always presume the worst anytime there's an issue with parts or previous maintenance.
Battery looks to be some type of Die Hard, I'm guessing a fairly cheap one since that's the history of the car that I do know, simple 6-cell battery with 3 cells on each side.
Car hasn't had any starting issues hot or cold weather.
The only "issue" would be that if it doesn't catch and start on that 1st turn of the key; and if you crank it too fast right after, it will labor to turn and catch. But if you just wait a few seconds before turning the ignition, you would never be aware of that at all.
Sorry, I know that the more experts of the bunch will ask for base numbers to get a better idea of the tune. But I don't have a Scanmaster in it.
The only continuing known issue I know of before this is a bad MAF that has been disconnected for several months now.
Will try to give it a simple basic jump start in the next daylight to see if it will at least turn.
Oh, and while on the subject if you specifically recommend a certain replacement battery please sound out on that too.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts/opinions.
