I don't know what to do...

[Zachary Lichliter]

Yesterday I was dropping a friend off at his house and I noticed that all of the sudden my compass and temp display was showing "CAL".

I thought it was weird and looked it up in the manual and found out that it just meant to drive in a few circles to fix it.

Then I looked at my radar detector and noticed that my voltage was down to 13.8 v idling wear it has always been at or above 14.3 v and it just will not go back up. I took it to my nearby auto parts store and tested the battery and alternator and both came back good. So now I'm at a loss.

Tomorrow I am going to try and hook it up to another car and try and charge it a little see if it goes up and holds it.

If you count this and the odd screech at a specific range on my throttle (which I am 90% sure is coming out of my intake but at the range the fan is to loud to tell).

So if anyone has any ideas for a fix or should I just leave it please let me know.



Thanks



Zachary L.

 

[Mike Dziubina]

If it aint broke, dont fix it!

 

[Jacob Dryer]

Throttlebody whistle is mostly normal.. (screech more than likely)



Random voltage dips I would say don't worry too much. 14.4 idling would be perfect but there are variables.

 

[Jerry Gerner 2]

Like JD said it's normal for an occassional dip in voltage, especially when you run more electronics on a stock cca battery. I up'd my battery to a 950cca becauase I have slot of different electronics on my ST. Another fix is to up the size of alternator as well. Just some suggestions.:banana:

 

[EddieS'04]

If it holds 13.8vdc idling with lights and someother big power zapers. That still good. A good battery is 12.65vdc.

 

[Ed Fenwick]

Zachary, The screech may be the alternator belt. It may have upset the compass somehow. I would have the belt looked at and reset the compass. 13.8 volts just means that the battery is up and doesn't need any more charge. There could also bee a bad connection to the compass somewhere.

Good luck Ed

 

[Les]

Check your connections at the battery...

 

[Shaun Tucker]

i've had the throttle body whistling at me for miles and miles. It sounds like more of a whistle than a screech though, so check the sound again.

 

[EddieS'04]

My throttle with the open conical filter. Has a progresive whooshing sound, its normal. Never had the whistle some speak of.