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ok this is the deal I went to buy a bmw at a good deal. The catch is the lady says it keeps killing the battery. She said it had an electrical problem. Any known problems with 97?ok this is the deal I went to buy a bmw at a good deal. The catch is the lady says it keeps killing the battery. She said it had an electrical problem. Any known problems with 97?
Need more info: - How long does it take to die? - Does it crank at all? - Does it die after driving or just during cranking? CharlieNeed more info: - How long does it take to die? - Does it crank at all? - Does it die after driving or just during cranking? Charlie
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Hi,from what you are discribing it could be that the starter has got stuck and that has coused a overload,and the current that gose from the battery to the startermotor has coused the cable to heat up which would couse the smoking,hope this was some help.
Probably not. Almost all newer cars have to have the battery attached to keep running, once its detached or dies, it will most likely stop running fairly soon, if not right away.
sounds like it may be a bad alternator. jump start the car and if it gets going disconnect the negative battery cable and if it dies you have a bad alternator. It may die as soon as you unplug the jump start cables.
"Killing" the battery...not quite sure what is meant by this term ?????
Do you mean, battery discharges overnight ??
Or
A new battery is put in and as soon as you try to crank, the battery dies ???
Or
Battery dies, as you drive the car ?????
Or ???????
if you have a bad altinator it will drain your battery causing the enguine to stop running. and if you killed the car that was jumping it then i def would get the altinator tested on both cars as jumping a car with a bad altinator can cause charging issues on the car doing the jumping.
Your battery was probably killed by heat, sitting and not being used and getting hot inside a garage will kill a battery, heat is a battery's worst enemy. No your altenator is probably not bad, test it with a meter by placing the red lead on the positive and black on negative, measure voltage before starting the engine, then again after starting the engine, before should be 11.5v-12.5v, after should be 13.5v-14.5v if these reading are the same on your car all is ok. Hope this helps, let me know.
When you put the new starter in, you didn't put one of the cables back on the post. It probably grounded itself enough to start and run, then moved by vibration, or a pothole, or gravity, and killed the motor.
As for the arcing battery.... are you sure you didn't attach the jumper cables to the wrong posts?
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ok this is the deal I went to buy a bmw at a good deal. The catch is the lady says it keeps killing the battery. She said it had an electrical problem. Any known problems with 97?
Need more info: - How long does it take to die? - Does it crank at all? - Does it die after driving or just during cranking? Charlie
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