The weirdest shit ever to happen to a Talon

[Chad Giffen]

Well I've been fighting this annoying ass electrical problem for a while now.

I guess it started way back when....

1) I swapped in new battery terminals and one wasn't the right size....      now fixed.
2) My deck in my car will display "Error A0" which mean "Mechanical or Electrical Problem.
3) Sometimes my speakers cut out while driving
4) Recently my car sometimes barely turns over to start indicating a loose ground?
5) My window wipers will turn on by themselves sometimes during the first 5 min after start-up and bog the car down

The small accident I havent fixed has caused my right fog light to stop working. Whether there is bare wires because of it I have not checked

I did have ECU problems 2 years ago....    but fixed the ECU and am still using the same one (coming back to haunt me?)

So who has ideas....

[Ivan Skare]

I'd check your grounds, any bare wire, and swap over the ecu from somebody.

[Chad Giffen]

UPDATE:::

I was simply looking around the engine bay for loose grounds. couldnt find any....     but there is MASSIVE oxidation around the transmission mount. Even the trnamission itself is starting to oxidize into white powder.

Anyopne know what could cause something this extreme?

I mean its obviously electrical....    but damnnn....   

[Ivan Skare]

UPDATE:::

I was simply looking around the engine bay for loose grounds. couldnt find any....     but there is MASSIVE oxidation around the transmission mount. Even the trnamission itself is starting to oxidize into white powder.

Anyopne know what could cause something this extreme?

I mean its obviously electrical....    but damnnn....   

Leaking battery.

[Chad Giffen]

Ivan was right!!!


Lifted the battery out and there was a huge pool of acid underneath.

Replaced the battery.

All seems fine.

For some reason my headlights dont work now....    usually only one side goes if its the bulbs....     checked the fuses...   they are good.

My car is beginning to annoy me. I hate electrical shit.

[John Hartman]

pull the battery out again and mix up a big bowl of baking soda and water.  Get a paint brush(stiff one) and liberally clean and brush the baking soda mix all over the battery tray area.  Get it on the tranny too and any thing else that shows any sign of having the acid on it.  Get some on the battery terminals and any ground wires near it.  Take things off and apart to try to find any signs of this anywhere else too.

Really get lots of this around, it won't hurt anything else so don't worry.

Hose it down with the garden hose liberally after letting it soak for a bit.

Also headlights can both go at once, I have seen it at work several times.  Start with the simple things first, but if the bulbs are KNOWN to be good, (no guessing, run power and ground to the bulbs and see if they light up) then start working your way back from there.

[Chad Giffen]

thanks john....     good advice.

I will check that and let everyone know...

[Nelson Inacio]

I've had both headlights go at once. Just drove it home with hi-beams on.

[Matt Vangaalen]

The search function works.

My voltage regulator went and over charged my battery. I nuetralized the acid that leaked out all over my tranny with baking soda water. That acid is eating my casting will it ever stop? Do I pull my tranny out to make sure its clean? fml

[John Hartman]

Matt, take everything off and away so you can get to everything involved.  more baking soda and water, let it sit, hose off with lots of water.  do it again.  keep it up until you are satisfied that its clean.  If you don't keep at it, every time the dried acid gets wet again from a puddle, rain splash, or just plain old humidity, it will reactivate and keep on eating.

[Matt Vangaalen]

Everything is off. I have been waiting on powder coating since november. Thanks John. I might just drop the tranny then. I bought an odyssey dry cell battery will it ever leak the same way? I made a custom mount. Should I be making a tray as well to catch this shitty acid?

[Matt Vangaalen]

From odyssey website.

Q. Are these a gel cell? What’s the difference?
A. No, the ODYSSEY battery is NOT a gel cell. It is an absorbed electrolyte type battery, meaning that there is no free acid inside the battery; all of the acid is kept absorbed in the glass mat separators. These separators serve to keep the positive and negative plates apart.
The key difference between the gel cell and the absorbed glass mat (AGM) cell lies in the fact that in the AGM cell all of the electrolyte is in the separator, whereas in the gel cell the acid is within the cells in a gel form. In fact, if the ODYSSEY battery were to split open, there would be no acid spillage!

[Matt Vangaalen]

the baking soda paste didnt foam up the second time i applied it. tells me that its no longer reacting with the acid so the acid is neutralized.