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Hey everybody,

I'm new here, signed up a week ago - I've bought myself a GTS-T R33 Skyline and I've been loving every minute behind the wheel, but in the last couple of days I've had some strange stuff happen and I'm wondering if anybody has any reccomendations.

Last night I went out to go pick up a friend and get some food - I went out front and found my car had a flat battery, I got a jump off another friend and everything was great, drove the 20-30 mins over to the mates house and I stupidly figured that would be enough time to get a bit of a charge in the battery.

Went inside for 10-20 mins, came back out and the car was flat again, completely flat, no indicators/hazzards, zero.

I got another jumpstart off another friend and I was going to drive the car home, when I noticed a couple of issues. The car took unusually long to get a jump (3-4 tries, dunno if thats normal) but my indicators were stuck on (couldn't use them at all) all my electrics had reset, stereo, clock etc.

I got the car back home but then the car would not stop, I literally turned the car off as normal and removed the keys from the ignition but the car kept running - a sort of small buzzing sound was coming from the dash - the only way I could stop the car was in a fairly dodgy way (basically had to stall it, its an automatic too)

I haven't started it since but I figure so far I need a new battery and possibly something else - anybody got any ideas or a place I can take it to, to get it checked out? I love this car but I really don't want strange stuff like this happening so soon after I've got it.

Thanks in advance

Phil

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Did you check if that is your turbo timer? It did happened to me once. The car will not stop and will start by itself. I have to change a new turbo timer and it was sweet after that. Some turbo timer from japan has funny function which we do not know of. Check that out.

Ive heard that your not meant to jump start Skylines because it fries the electronics? Anyone else heard this?

Thats why u always turn your head lights on when jump starting so if any shorting goes it wont be damaging your ecu it acts as a decoy and blows your lights..id rather buy new lights than a ecu ... :P

Thats why u always turn your head lights on when jump starting so if any shorting goes it wont be damaging your ecu it acts as a decoy.

Hmmm..... Smart Electricity in Japaneese cars???????? What will they think of next.

Read your manual, you can jump start a skyline.

Hmmm..... Smart Electricity in Japaneese cars???????? What will they think of next.

Read your manual, you can jump start a skyline.

my manual is in japanese, so i cant exactly read it...

but its an interesting question, do you just jump start them like any other car, or do you have to have the headlights on as mentioned above?

if u look under ur bonnet at the fuse box it has jump lead tags hanging out of it i think they are protected by fuse. u dont jump start straight from the battery or things may go boom :)

Edited by Pal

NEVER disconnect your battery while car is running, as there is a good chance that the alternator will fry itself.

Replace the battery, very common for Skylines to require new batteries after purchase.

As the battery went flat, this may have reset a hidden turbo timer. Have a good look under the dash, doesn't hurt to contact the previous owner to ask if there is a timer.

When i first got my 33 i had to replace the battery after two weeks. Then out of the blue the car wouldnt turn off (happend randomly) and there was a beeping noise under the dash, I pulled the fuse cover off and there was a turbo timer jammed right up under the dash. Have a good look under there, you might be surprised!

-rb25

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