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Hello, my name is mik and my car is broken.

Its got a little shimmy in the front left brake.

I think its the radius rod mount. the hole has been enlarged by bad previous owners driving into something.

Weld a plate? New k frame? Them brace gk tech thingys?

  • 2 weeks later...

Mine has been fine, but I've been too scared to use the high beams :P

It wasn't the alternator. I'm thinking it might be the clamps on the battery? Tats said he had a similar issue where doing just one "extra" thing stole too much power and made the car shut down and he discovered one of his clamps hanging off.

Mine aren't hanging off, but I've had problems with them before.

^ depending on the type of battery, some have a removable plastic washer at the base of the terminals, which when taken off, lets you clamp them down better

I know my car has a slightly wonky earth somewhere, so this week I am determined to fix it

I checked those. Didnt move by hand. But doesnt hurt to nip them up a bit

Yeah I know, they're clamped on good but when I had issues before they were too - it was more a bit of a build up of gunk that was doing it and making the connection fail, rather than any looseness.

I figured with a brand new battery it would all be clean and sorted, but maybe the clamps are still gunky on the inside?

Yeah that would be great! The "poles" (lol) should be fine cos it's a brand new battery... typical, it's the male part playing up!! :P

I think I need to buy some of that terminal spray stuff to try as well.

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