Hoping this might be an easy answer for someone....
Driving the car home the other day (2003 1KD-FTV), the radio and other electrical items start to fade. Get home, turn off the engine, won't restart (won't turn over - acts like a dead battery). I jump start it and it idles fine. Try to drive a little bit and it's very sluggish - of real concern (and confusion) is that the brake and abs lights are on.
I'm thinking that the alternator is gone and that it's running of of whatever is left in the batteries (not enough power to start the motor, but perhaps run for a while). Are those lights on because whatever runs the brakes and abs rely on electricity and there's not enough to run them properly?
I'm afraid I don't have a code reader - would have to have it towed.
Thanks,
Clive
Driving the car home the other day (2003 1KD-FTV), the radio and other electrical items start to fade. Get home, turn off the engine, won't restart (won't turn over - acts like a dead battery). I jump start it and it idles fine. Try to drive a little bit and it's very sluggish - of real concern (and confusion) is that the brake and abs lights are on.
I'm thinking that the alternator is gone and that it's running of of whatever is left in the batteries (not enough power to start the motor, but perhaps run for a while). Are those lights on because whatever runs the brakes and abs rely on electricity and there's not enough to run them properly?
I'm afraid I don't have a code reader - would have to have it towed.
Thanks,
Clive
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