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Oldsmobile Alero Electrical/Heat issue?
3.4L V6, and while it has been a great car for most of the time I've had it, I'm having some issues.
I just had the rotors, pads, one of the tie rods, and an oil pressure switch replaced. But this is a completely new ball game.
This started a year ago, but only happened once, so I ignored it. It was a very cold winter night, and it was spitting a wet snow/sleet mix, and I was on the highway. The car was running fine, but I started to notice the cabin becoming cool, then freezing cold, to the point that my breath was visible, and frost was forming on the interior of the window from the moisture in my breath. I got home, but had finals, so I was unable to take care of it, but it never did it after that night, so I left well enough alone.
A few weeks ago, I noticed that the turn signals occasionally fail to come on. It's very seldom, but sometimes they just fail. The heat has again decided to fail, but now it is any time there is any precipitation when I am traveling at highway speed. The thermostat is fine, because there is still hot air being generated by the car, but the fan is not blowing it into the cabin, so the passenger cabin becomes very cold (37 degrees out tonight, and the cabin temperature fell below 45 degrees with heat on full). Another thing of note: It has a hard time starting in cold weather, and the battery is not even a year old.
I'm likely taking it in for diagnostics in the morning, but want to be somewhat informed, because I don't want to get taken. What is it likely to be?
Forgot to specify a year...2002
80k miles (just hit that a few days ago, and just fell outside of warranty a month and a half ago)
Thanks, MR ZASS.
It's funny...I never used to consider 7 years and 80k miles to be a lot of years or miles. I used to own an old Toyota pickup truck that had 225k miles before it finally blew a head gasket and keeled over. Also had a Camry that ran for 175k miles before I just decided it wasn't worth fixing (only took an estimate of $500). Even my dad's old junker pickup has 150k on it, and the only reason it's dying is its problems are in the wiring (it's actually dependable as a work truck aside from that). Hard to believe this car is getting there already, at half the life...
And as I recall it had a tune-up at 50k, which is what bugs me
I'll look into a tune-up, quite likely in a month or two. The blower motor, I had kind of figured out, and that happens. As long as it's not the wiring or something like that, I can handle the maintenance costs, as long as these kinds of problems don't become routine. I'm not giving up on it yet, but its little temper tantrums do occasionally p*ss me off.
2 個解答
- 1 十年前最愛解答
it could be something as simple as a corroded positive battery terminal, the two cables that run to the side post battery are stacked on top of each other and have a tendency to corrode which cuts down on the electrical flow to your starter and computer controls. although it could be much worse olds alero's aren't very well built cars and you have a lot of miles and years on your car. you may be at the cutoff point where it will cost more to fix the car than its worth. you need to take this into consideration if you're looking at spending a lot of money on an old piece of junk.
- therick63Lv 51 十年前
Nick your car is 7 years old, that means in people years it's older than you and Mr ***.
All of your problems are caused by maintenance issues. It sounds like your Blower Motor
might be failing, also the bulbs could need replacing and regarding the hard start, Well.
When was the last time this vehicle was Tuned up?
So you have a Question to ask yourself? Do you go into debt to buy a new car?
Or do you Maintain this car and drive another 80K.
Good luck
PS: I'll take it off your hands if you decide too get rid of it