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ok so i need help... my car prett ymuch died on me. lets start from the beginning. i was driving home from sydney when my speedo stopped working, now my hicas light is on and have no power steering. im fine with that, then yesterday my hicas light was on (its always on now) and it started making thumping soudns from my gearbox i think. pasenger side in the middle my passsenger said she felt it thumping. so i turned my car off. turned it on. still did it. the hicas light was flashing and taking corners would make the steering jolt wen the light was flashing (about twice a second). so i turnbed it off, turned it on did it a couple of times then it wouldnt turn on (i my battery ran flat the other day coz my stero turned on during the night ( my mate isntalled the stero and didnt hok up to accesory power) so i got a jum,pstart yesterday and all was fine till i heard beeping from my tubro timer, the battery was on 10 volts and kepped dropping and the car was loosing power. it wanted to stall at a set of lights, by this time the turbo timer said it was on 8.2 volts. i had to rev to 3k rpm jsust so it wouldnt stall. so i chucked my hhazzards on so no one would hit me and the power dropped even more would only rev to 1.5k with my foot toi the floor. it was doign the old bunny hops liek when u first learned to drive. made it to a car park and the turbo light was on. so i put my foot down and it wouldnt rev over 2k at this point and it sounded wierd. like it was bouncing at 2k rpm took my foot off the accelerator and it stalled. couldnt start again coz hte batter was f**ked. somehow got my power windows up and could smell burning. so i opped my bonnet and saw smoke coming from the back but it didnt last long. look at the pic to see where it came from. anyways had to spend the rest of my money on getting it towed home and i was gogin to go to willowbank tonight to race it. im a apprentice baker so i aint got lots of cash and hopeing it wont cost too much to fix. im gogin to buy a battery next week to see if i can get it to start. any suggestions or help wuld be greatly appretiated. and laughing will make me cry lol

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sounds like it may either be a dead alternator, or the associated wiring.

the burning could be the power cable or the alterntor it self.

when the alternator dies, your car will run till the battery goes flat, in which time all electrical accessories start doign funny things.

get it proffesionally checked out.

steve

i'm pleased to tell you that from what you've posted i'm 90% sure it's just a dead alternator. the other 10% is either faulty battery, or faulty wiring from your stero install constantly putting too much load on the alt/battery.

before running out to buy a new batter see if you can get your old one charged. then put it back in. check the voltage, now start the car and check the voltage. if the voltage goes down with the car running then it's the alt. if you are at all handy save yourself the tow job and pull out the alternator. then take it to an auto electrician for a rebuild. should be under $200 just depends what's needed. then re-fit and your away.

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