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Expensive day
Nov. 14th, 2016 05:58 pmI leave for work about my usual time - for those who know the area, I get on 35W northbound and take it to 94 westbound. I'm a tenth of a mile or so short of the bridge that takes me from one to the other, and I notice that I'm not getting much power to my wheels. I put the car in neutral, it revs fine, I put it back in drive, it's working fine.
As I'm going over the bridge, it starts giving no power after every time I take my foot all the way off the gas. Neutral / drive - it's good. Until I get to the base of the bridge - and then it's bad. Neutral to drive - and no more power. I hit the four-way flashers. I've got just enough momentum / power to get all the way over to the right side, and about half-way onto the shoulder. I turn the car off, and call my garage. They tell me to call the towing service they work with. I do so. When the tow-truck shows up, I roll down the windows. And as I'm doing so, the radio starts flashing off and on. When I go to roll the windows up, they don't. BTW, they're power windows.
Off to the garage. I explain to them what happened, and they give me a loaner car. I drive home, and work from home today. An hour or so after I get home, they call - they alternator and the battery are both dead. I say 'replace them'.
I get to go pick up the car about 4pm. It cost something over $700.
I drive a 2006 Nissan Sentra. Does anyone know enough about the drive train to explain why lack of electricity translates to lack of power to the wheels?
As I'm going over the bridge, it starts giving no power after every time I take my foot all the way off the gas. Neutral / drive - it's good. Until I get to the base of the bridge - and then it's bad. Neutral to drive - and no more power. I hit the four-way flashers. I've got just enough momentum / power to get all the way over to the right side, and about half-way onto the shoulder. I turn the car off, and call my garage. They tell me to call the towing service they work with. I do so. When the tow-truck shows up, I roll down the windows. And as I'm doing so, the radio starts flashing off and on. When I go to roll the windows up, they don't. BTW, they're power windows.
Off to the garage. I explain to them what happened, and they give me a loaner car. I drive home, and work from home today. An hour or so after I get home, they call - they alternator and the battery are both dead. I say 'replace them'.
I get to go pick up the car about 4pm. It cost something over $700.
I drive a 2006 Nissan Sentra. Does anyone know enough about the drive train to explain why lack of electricity translates to lack of power to the wheels?
