We live in alaska and my daughter is in school in Az. Can i pull the battery from her 99 escort without issues

put a new alternator harness on the vehcle

Do you live in a place like Alaska? Do your neighbors have the same issue with their cars? You might just need a new battery.

Had the same issuee the same as you, tried cutting the cables, and grounding them out somewhere else. Haven't had any issues since

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Our '91 Integra can start and perform for a whole week then randomly dies at intersections. Symptoms are dim headlights and stuff like yours. One would think it was alternator or battery right? No. I took battery in to Walmart to their diagnostic station by the paint department. The diagnostic machine refused to charge the battery because it had a full charge. The battery checked out fine.

Do you understand what this means? This means that the alternator has been charging the battery all week that Daughter B has been driving to work-school-home-boyfriend-etc. Yet it died with dead battery symptoms. This is driving me crazy.

So, I removed the battery then put it back in and the car started and the car ran like a scalded cat and I got home. Next morning- Daughter B tries to go to school and car won't start.?! I apply battery charger set to 'Quick start' and started the car. I removed charger and applied my DC voltmeter. Voltage at idle was 12.5V showing alternator is charging. Put finger on throttle cable and rev engine and voltage goes up to 13v but no higher showing that the voltage regulator is working.

What we have is a problem unrelated to the expansion and contraction of heated versus cooled parts. The pretty much rules out bad physical wiring connections. Without more knowledge on this subject I would just have to say the car is demon possessed and that I should buy a new used car with different problems eh?

It is very rare for the PCM (computer) to fail on these vehicles. The vehicle needs to be scanned by professional scan tool that can monitor the various sensors, fuel pressure, etc. Live data should be recorded when the problem is occurring. Above all, parts should not be changed without proper diagnosis.

If this is a manual transmission the clutch has burned out, it may need to be replaced, if you do not do your own mechanic work I would suggest that you take it to a good local repair shop and have them check it out. If this is an automatic I would still suggest the same, but the actual problem could be more complex. Hope this helps, let me know.

might be your timing belt pull the cover off and make sure the belt is turning

check fuses door wires starter there is a central locking and alarm modual could be faulty.
pull back rubber inbetween doors and see if wires are broken.

hi i have the fault code here and it says gear 4 incorrect ratio.wiring fault,transmission switch,shift solenoids or mechanical faults in the gear box.hope this helps ,best of luck.