The other night I was out running errands for a few hours and all of a sudden the radio acted weird and died. Then the a/c went out. And before I knew it all of the gauges went to zero and then jumped around erratically. Yep, my battery was just about dead which concerned me since I had just replaced the battery the previous week.
On my way home I stopped at AutoZone to have my battery and alternator tested. They said the battery was fine but the alternator was only putting out 30 Amps, and registering a low voltage (like 11 Volts). It's supposed to be 14.5 and up. (Or something like that as I'm not a car expert.) I have to tell you the AutoZone employees were awesome. They charged my battery on the stand for awhile and I went home (got a ride from my neighbor Jana). In the meantime a friend let me borrow her cool sports car so I could get to work on Friday. When I went back to pick up my car at Autozone Thursday night I found out that my battery started smoking on the stand so they gave me a new one (I just bought that one the week before). I needed to buy an alternator and a belt from them, but they didn't have them in stock and it was after closing time so other stores weren't answering the phones. I returned at 7:30 am the next morning so we could have the parts transferred from another store and I could pay for them. One of the guys volunteered to pick them up instead of waiting for them to be delivered and he even dropped it off at the auto repair shop for me! How cool was that?
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