Wanted to see if you guys had any thoughts on a problem my 2006 Accord is having.
Occassionally (like a time or two a month) over the past several months, the car will momentarily lose electrical power if it's idling and the AC compressor kicks on. It doesn't happen all the time and I don't think it's happened when moving. The engine doesn't stop.
On Wednesday this week I left a light on and drained the battery, got a jump and it started right up and drove fine.
On Friday after I got home from work, went to switch cars with the wife and it was totally dead - 10 minutes after I had just driven it for 25 minutes. No lights or anything when turning the key. Jumped it and it started fine, then while sitting for a few minutes it shut down and again appeared totally dead.
I checked the battery with a multimeter and got 12.6v resting (I realize this doesn't necessarily indicate it's OK). A little while later I got in the car and the lights were back and it started up OK. 14v on the battery with the engine running. That was Friday afternoon and I haven't had to drive it since.
The car has 175k miles, the battery is a Bosch AGM that went in November '16 at 120k. The terminals and clean and the connections are tight.
The semi random totally dead behavior perhaps suggests there's some sort of intermittent connection problem? I imagine that would be hard to isolate. I thought about getting one of those $20 Harbor Freight analog battery testers.
Any ideas? Thanks,
jeff
Occassionally (like a time or two a month) over the past several months, the car will momentarily lose electrical power if it's idling and the AC compressor kicks on. It doesn't happen all the time and I don't think it's happened when moving. The engine doesn't stop.
On Wednesday this week I left a light on and drained the battery, got a jump and it started right up and drove fine.
On Friday after I got home from work, went to switch cars with the wife and it was totally dead - 10 minutes after I had just driven it for 25 minutes. No lights or anything when turning the key. Jumped it and it started fine, then while sitting for a few minutes it shut down and again appeared totally dead.
I checked the battery with a multimeter and got 12.6v resting (I realize this doesn't necessarily indicate it's OK). A little while later I got in the car and the lights were back and it started up OK. 14v on the battery with the engine running. That was Friday afternoon and I haven't had to drive it since.
The car has 175k miles, the battery is a Bosch AGM that went in November '16 at 120k. The terminals and clean and the connections are tight.
The semi random totally dead behavior perhaps suggests there's some sort of intermittent connection problem? I imagine that would be hard to isolate. I thought about getting one of those $20 Harbor Freight analog battery testers.
Any ideas? Thanks,
jeff