Import owners are to blame for the recession

sure it will, say it's a 10W bulb (don't know exactly what car we're
talking about here) round that to 1A to make the math easy, say you
leave your car for 24 hours, that's 24Ah or probably half the total
capacity of an average 12V car battery. (not sure exactly what they
are, but a 55Ah lead-acid battery used for backup power is about the
same size as a car battery.)

Now the OP said that he only left it on for 8 hours, but let's say that
this was a higher end trim level with courtesy lights in the footwells,
a cargo area light, etc. that might be closer to a 3-4A draw so the math
still works out exactly the same or even worse than my example above.

nate

 

Odd, I had done that several times in the past - on Nissan and GM
cars/trucks - and never had an issue.

Of course, in Winter the temp drops down. (I noticed it was down to 55
degrees outside when I left for the gym this morning at 4:45.) IIRC, that
tends to put more of a strain on the battery.


Or is it the other way around?


Nice thing is - in my truck and my wife's car (Chevy/Saturn), the interior
lights automatically shut off after about ten minutes.

 

Yes it was an S-10 that had more than just an interior light, there was also
two lights on either side of the brake light on the cab that went on. There
were also interior lights under the dash. Running for the train was fun!

And to think I left my Corolla dome light on all day the other day and it
started right up. But it's only one little dome light, probably not even 5
W.

Sir Charles the Curmudgeon

 

Except GM owns AC Delco and also spec's the battery.

The Chevy also likely has a brighter dome light?

That said, the Jap batteries are among the best out there (yuasa in
particular) and Delco among the worst (particularly the "freedom
battery"

 

On domestic cars today the interior lights off automatically after a set
period of time.

 

Like I said, you are a fucking idiot. Leaving the interior light on and
killing the battery is clearly a user issue, not a GM issue.

Wow, such clever jokes. Does your family tree fork at any point?

Yawn. Why don't you stay in the Toyo group. I doubt you are liked over
there either, but you certainly come off as an asshole over here.

 

The 95 S-10 at the trim level I bought did not have that feature. I wished
it did. It also had 2 wheel (rear-only) ABS, which was a total piece of
crap. There were many times I wasn't stopping in a straight line on a
slippery surface that the rear tried to pass the front! First time it did
that, I nearly drove it down to the dealer and put it through his front
window just to show him what a piece of worthless dung it was.

Sir Charles the Curmudgeon

OTOH, my Corolla doesn't either, but it's not trying to power a freeking
kleig light to illuminate the passenger compartment brighter than sunshine.

 

Once again Curmudgeon, you're talking out of your ass again. For starters,
Delphi Corporation (not GM) makes AC Delco, as well some of the EverStart
batteries for Wal-Mart (most likely the 75 series for GM autos).
Technically, it's a separate corporation spun off from GM. GM engineers
would specify which battery to use with their vehicles.

And what do you know, Consumer Reports rated the two EverStart and one
Kirkland batteries as Best Buys in the November 2008 test of auto batteries
(Group 75)! Just because you're stupid enough to leave your light on all
night, don't go blaming the battery.

Derek

 

I have had five. no trannie failures.

1989 wagon. death by wife (crash)
1990 sedan 3.0L sold running (had smoother shifts than the 93)
1993 sedan 3.0L death by wife again 160K
1993 wagon 3.0L 210k+ attempted death by wife. only corner not
molested is passenger rear.
1997 sedan 3.0L bought as is with bad motor. put 3.0 in and drove it
away. 130K shifts fine. runs a little hot for my tastes but it warms up
fast in the winter.

Yes, i have had my share of motor mounts radiators and starters
alternators and water pumps. but all work i could do.

the secret of early Taurus was staying away from 3.8's. a good
strong motor, but tended to eat head gaskets (no matter what mike
hunt says...) gen3's needed fresh coolant often or they got constipated
and blew head gaskets. Thats what happened to the one i got now, but i
bought it cheap that way and put a used motor in it. Not quite sure
what they did to the latter vulcans because the earlier ones did not
seem to have these issues with brown sludge coolant.

I did see one 90 or so that i junked for parts that had a wire harness
chaffed on the engine block the could have shorted it out. It was junk
by the time i threw a hammer at it.

Taurus have been cheap, dependable cars for the most part.
there cheap to fix (compared to others) and easy to find salvage
parts for.

You don't buy a Taurus for resale value though. You buy it to drive it
to death (which my wife is quite good at )

bob

 

In estland the reporters reported that newspapermen needed to take off
their shoes on any newsconferences with the stupid guy in the White
House.

It looks like the Russians too that reporting seriously and print the
story as truth.

http://lenta.ru/news/2009/01/12/bush1/