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| Posted:Jun 15 2003, 07:54 PM |
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Hi all.
Today, I decided to clean the terminals on my car (VL commodore). I put a little water on the terminals as they were slightly corrosive looking. I decided to take off them of the terminals and scrub them properly. The bolts were a bit rusty, so I gave them a squirt with some WD-40 to loosen it up. Now when I start my car...well it just doesn't. The inside lights dim when I touch the breaks or press the button to pop the boot.
My question here is did I simply leave my lights on, or just did I do something simply stupid again?
Maybe some water got somewhere it shouldn't have?
WD40- to much of it?
MY EMAIL IS jonodyason@yahoo.com
PLEASE HELP!!!
Thanks all. |
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| Posted:Jun 16 2003, 10:36 AM |
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| QUOTE (jonty123 @ Jun 15 2003, 06:54 PM) | Hi all.
Today, I decided to clean the terminals on my car (VL commodore). I put a little water on the terminals as they were slightly corrosive looking. I decided to take off them of the terminals and scrub them properly. The bolts were a bit rusty, so I gave them a squirt with some WD-40 to loosen it up. Now when I start my car...well it just doesn't. The inside lights dim when I touch the breaks or press the button to pop the boot.
My question here is did I simply leave my lights on, or just did I do something simply stupid again?
Maybe some water got somewhere it shouldn't have?
WD40- to much of it?
MY EMAIL IS jonodyason@yahoo.com
PLEASE HELP!!!
Thanks all. |
I put a little water on the terminals as they were slightly corrosive looking: water on corrosive looking material is never a good idea ....
does the starter motor at least try to start ur motor is just simply not doing anything?
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| Posted:Jun 16 2003, 12:20 PM |
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also make sure you have secured the terminals on very tightly, i once had the same problem certain that my battery was gone coz there just didnt seem like enough power, then after some heavy tightening it worked first go  |
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| Posted:Jun 16 2003, 10:29 PM |
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Success!!!
It was so simple...I just cleaned the terminals up again...One was just covered in muck. I then made sure the terminals were firm...Turned the key and Vvvvvvvrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
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| Posted:Jun 17 2003, 03:03 PM |
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good to hear jonty  oh and welcome to the forums  |
