My pops replaced an alternator for my Nissan Altima ('2001 GXE) yesterday and forgot to disconnect my battery before starting the procedure. Now the car electronics are dead. The car runs when I turn the ignition and drives alright (though the engine block vibrates alot more than we started. . . probably because the tensioner is not set to the correct length), but the dashboard, horn etc etc do not work. Does this mean that I just need to replace my fuses? Or is there more damage done than before installing the alternator? I am going to go to the parts store later today. Please advise.
My father and I looked into the car yesterday and found that it wasn't the Fuse box right next to the battery that was dead, it was the Fuse-able box that was dead. So right now, the radiator fans, anti-theft, air conditioning, power windows etc etc are the only ones that are not working.
only way of telling is to check it out look at all your fuses you can try an reset everything by disconnecting -ground cable for a few minutes
when a car is started and running, what does the electronics of a car use as an energy source to power them up (i.e. radio, clock, headlights, interior lights). do they use the gas or the battery?
It is powered by your alternator. The battery starts your car, then the alternator takes over and powers your car plus charges the battery.
Your engine powers the alternator which generates electricity. So indirectly, you use gas to run the electronics in your car. But it's not like turning up your stereo really loud is using any more gas than normal.
At car shows they run the cars electronics all the time.
Whats the inverter called that alowes them to do that?
Also does anyone know where to purchase one from?
Many Thanks
Flux Capacitor. You can get them at Mos Isles.
Everytime i finish driving and get out of my car i get a hefty shock; static i'm assuming - and hoping :) . Is this normal? It seems it only happens in my car. Is it a common problem or.....?
Cheers.
It can be a combination of the type of interior material and the material in your clothing.When you go to get out try holding your key in your hand and put it against a bare metal part as you step out,this will discharge the static to the car,this also a good thing to do before pumping fuel.A rubber strap hanging from the bumper to the ground will discharge this static as well
I just bought a new car...and because I assumed that having a panic button meant there was an alarm on there.
Whatever the case, I want an alarm on the car. A friend of the family who has been a mechanic for 30 years said it's too late because somebody has to go in there and cut wires...and there's a good chance that he will mess up your car's electronics forever.
Is this true? Also, is it common for people to put in alarm systems after they buy the car?
As a mechanic, I would say aftermarket alarms have a good chance of causing problems. I have pulled countless problem alarms out of cars, but most of them were cheapies, and were installed poorly. If the car came with an alarm from the factory, the aftermarket alarm is just pointless. Virtually all new cars have all the theft protection you could ever want, and as these cars get more complex the likelihood of problems increases. That said, cut wires have never stopped me from fixing a car, just make sure your mechanic solders the wires together rather than using a butt splice, which may become loose and cause problems of it's own.
i have spent the entire day installing a headunit in my car, i disconnected the positive side of the battery at various stages of installing it, now my car wont start, there is no central locking, the light on the ceiling wont work, how do i fix this problem without paying people? help!
first make sure the battery is still charged up (having the doors and trunk/hood open while doing your installation can run down your battery)
see it you have a burnt fuse somewhere, check both fuse boxes (under the dash and under the hood depending on your car model)
I have Hyundai Sonata 1991 . I'm a beginner in Cars . I'm suffering from lack of knowlege about car mechanic and electronic basics . Please Help me found something usefull in the net .
I hate to tell you this, but nothing (worthwhile) online is for free. I might suggest that you visit your local library to find info that you need to fix your car. There should be lots of books available.
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the sell a device that you connect to your mp3 player so you can hear it strait off of the radio!
There is no make or model number. It is an anti-theft device.
Put it on a radio station and hit and hold down the button you want it on until the station light flashes.
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By Tamara Keith | NPR
As millions of Americans hit the road this week, many will use GPS devices to guide the way. But there could be trouble ahead for the portable navigation business, and it comes in the form of cell phones.
Analysts say GPS-enabled cell phones are going to cut into the sales of stand-alone devices from companies like Garmin and TomTom.
Cell phones have become the Swiss Army knives of electronic devices. They take pictures, play music, deliver e-mail and now, increasingly, offer GPS navigation — not just a map, but full-service, turn-by-turn directions.
On a recent test drive with the new Droid smart phone, Verizon spokesperson Melanie Ortel demonstrated its voice recognition system.
"Take us to RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C.," Ortel said slowly into the phone, mounted on her front windshield.
The Droid quickly pulls up information for the stadium and calculates a route.
The Droid phone uses the new Google Maps Navigation system. In a lot of ways, the Droid isn't all that different from stand-alone portable navigation devices or other smart phones with GPS capabilities.
"Navigation systems on these devices are so helpful because no matter how far I'm driving, if I come across traffic, it helps me redirect," Ortel said. She drives a lot but doesn't seem to have the best sense of direction.
"It gives me other options route-wise for getting there, or if I make a wrong turn, it redirects me immediately," Ortel added.
Droid's Google-based navigation system is free — there's no extra monthly service charge.
Market analysts wonder: Why, if there is a good navigation system on a cell phone, would someone spend $150 for a stand-alone GPS device?
Stock in Garmin is down 16 percent since Google announced its navigation app for the Droid. TomTom stock is off 32 percent.
"I think the writing is on the wall for the marketplace that apps, navigation apps for your smart phone are going to eat into the market opportunity for dedicated portable navigation devices," said Steve Koenig, director of industry analysis for the Consumer Electronics Association.
Koenig says the stand-alone devices tend to have bigger displays than smart phones.
"They're not quite to the same level of functionality and ease of use, so that's a ray of hope, at least for the short term, for portable navigation," Koenig said.
Not long ago, these devices were the darlings of the consumer electronics industry. Sales volume doubled from 2007 to 2008. Most sales now are expected to be flat at best.
Tom Murray, the vice president of market development for TomTom, says the Droid is raising some provocative questions for his industry, but he isn't convinced it will be a game changer.
"As the dust settles and people have time to appreciate what its impact is truly going to be to the category, different perspectives perhaps will prevail," Murray said.
And there's one other thing these companies are counting on: Not everyone will want to use a phone to get driving directions.
"We still think both will exist," said Jessica Myers with Garmin International. "You have people that want an all-in-one device that does it all, and then you have people that are more interested in having devices that do one thing extremely well."
Swiss Army knives haven't put corkscrew makers out of business, and cell phones that take pictures haven't killed the digital camera industry. The pressure is on, however, for Garmin and TomTom.
"It's going to force those other devices to get that much better," said Frank Dickson, vice president of research with the firm In-Stat.
"It's got to be a whole lot better if I'm going to spend that much money," Dickson said. "It's going to force them to innovate."
Related Posts Google drives into navigation marketNov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Shoppers took advantage of Black Friday discounts to snap up televisions, laptop computers and robot hamsters at Best Buy Co. , Target Corp. and Toys “R” Us Inc. stores from New Jersey to Texas.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, drew crowds with $298 Hewlett-Packard laptop computers and other specials that went on sale at 5 a.m. Best Buy Inc., the biggest electronics chain, had bigger early-morning crowds than last year, Chief Executive Officer Brian Dunn said. The lines in front of the stores were longer, and the company’s Web site attracted more visitors, Dunn said.
“Those are both directionally important indicators for us,” Dunn said in a Bloomberg Television interview.
The day after U.S. Thanksgiving is known as Black Friday, the traditional beginning of holiday buying. Explanations of the phrase’s origins differ, one holding that it’s the weekend when retailers go to being in the black, profitable for the year. Stores open early on Black Friday and offer early-bird discounts to attract business. This year, shoppers say they plan to spend less on gifts than they did last year.
U.S. retailers reported strong shopper traffic as bargains on electronics, toys and apparel drew budget-conscious consumers, the National Retail Federation, a Washington-based trade group, said in a statement.
$1,000 Savings
“I do this because of my family,” Eihab Elzubier, a truck driver, said as he stood at the head of the line outside a Best Buy in Greensboro, North Carolina, before the store opened this morning. He arrived at 9 a.m. yesterday and kept his place in line with help of his wife, mother and sister.
Elzubier, 41, figured the 20-hour wait would save him as much as $1,000. He planned to buy a 42-inch Samsung flat-panel TV for $547.99, a Sony laptop computer for $399.99, a Compaq laptop for $179.99, software and accessories.
Walmart, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, kept stores open all night so shoppers could grab $3 pajamas and $15 Miley Cyrus jeans when they went on sale at 5 a.m. Employees handed out vouchers for discounted consumer electronics to early arrivals and distributed circulars and maps indicating promoted items.
The world’s largest retailer cut some toy prices to $5. Walmart, Plano, Texas-based J.C. Penney Co., Target, Macy’s Inc. and Sears Holdings Corp.’s Kmart all advertised discounted slow cookers for early shoppers in Thursday circulars. Prices ranged from $3 to $20.
Picking Carefully
Shirley Johnson, 48, an accounting clerk from Rittman, Ohio, was hunting for the best values on items like gloves by keeping fliers in her car and going from store to store.
“Normally my cart would be full with gifts on Black Friday,” she said at the Walmart in Medina, Ohio. “Now I have maybe $10 worth of carefully picked items that were on special. There are just more and more expenses and less and less money.”
Walmart fell 33 cents to $54.63 at 1:01 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. Target fell 13 cents to $47.70. Richfield, Minnesota-based Best Buy lost 43 cents to $42.83, and J.C. Penney declined $1.07 to $29.57.
Based on visit to stores and comments by store employees, sales are probably meeting or exceeding projections, David Schick , a Baltimore-based analyst with Stifel Nicolaus & Co. wrote in a note to investors today.
Flat-Panel TVs
There seem to be more discounts on TVs this year, and shoppers are snapping them up, said Charles O’Shea , a New York- based retail analyst with Moody’s Investors Service. In the four hours he spent checking retailers in northern New Jersey, he saw several shoppers standing at bus stops holding flat-panel sets.
“It looks like everybody has caught the promotional bug pretty heavily,” O’Shea said.
The 12,000-car parking lot at Taubman Centers Inc.’s Woodfield Mall in Chicago was 35 percent full by 6 a.m., compared with 28 percent last year, Bill Taubman , chief operating officer of Taubman Centers, a U.S. real estate investment trust with 24 malls, said in a telephone interview.
“There’s a little more traffic than last year across the board, maybe 10 percent,” he said.
Toys “R” Us, based in Wayne, New Jersey, had an average of 1,000 people outside all its stores before they opened at midnight, five hours earlier than last year, said Chairman and CEO Jerry Storch . The chains sold a “significant number” of Apple Inc. iPods and tens of thousands of Zhu Zhu Pets robot hamsters, he said.
Zhu Zhu Ticket
Angela Akra, a 33-year-old office manager from Bristol, Connecticut, got to the Toys “R’ Us store at the Corbin’s Corner shopping center in West Hartford last night at 10:50 p.m. and snared a coveted ticket for a $10 Zhu Zhu Pets toy.
“We’re optimistic,” Storch said in a telephone interview today. “The last thing parents will cut back on is toys for their kids.”
In New York’s Herald Square, shoppers streamed in and out of the Victoria’s Secret and H&M stores with multiple shopping bags at dawn.
Shopper traffic appeared greater than a year ago, and continued to flow into the Herald Square store after the initial rush, Macy’s Chairman and CEO Terry Lundgren said. Housewares and jewelry were selling “briskly,” he said.
“Last year, we were in a much more defensive posture,” Lundgren said in a telephone interview. “This year, we are in a much more offensive posture.”
Coffee Maker
Martha Alfaro, 29, a retail production manager, bought a coffee maker after arriving at the store at 5 a.m.
Members of more than a quarter of U.S. households planned to shop today, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers, a New York-based trade group.
Deann Smyers, 53, arrived at a Best Buy in Houston at 7:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving to wait for the chance to buy a Samsung refrigerator offered at almost half of its original price. Her son Dustin, 28, was looking for a GPS and laptop.
“We researched the ads, and this just had the things we wanted,” she said.
Joe Dejean, a 24-year-old financial consultant, found 60 percent off on menswear at a Saks Inc. store in New York and picked up some shirts and toiletries.
“I’m not really sure if prices are going to get any lower,” he said. “I may come back to Saks later after checking a few more places.”
With unemployment at 10.2 percent, price is more important to consumers this year than selection, quality or convenience, according to the National Retail Federation. Shoppers may spend an average of $682.74 on Christmas gifts this year, compared with $705.01 last year, according to the Washington-based NRF.
IMac computers
Apple reduced the price of 21.5-inch iMac computers by $101 to $1,098 today and discounted its 64-gigabyte iPod Touch musical device by $41 to $358, according to the Cupertino, California-based company’s Web site.
Lorna Artibani, 52, hosted a meal at home yesterday for a dozen family members until 10:30 p.m. An hour later, she and her 30-year-old daughter headed to the Toys “R” Us in West Hartford, Connecticut, to look for gifts for her 9-year-old granddaughter.
“It’s kind of like the excitement of getting that elusive game,” said Artibani.
To contact the reporters on this story: Cotten Timberlake in Washington at ctimberlake@bloomberg.net Chris Burritt in Greensboro, North Carolina, at 1348 or cburritt@bloomberg.net ;
Last Updated: November 27, 2009 15:29 EST
BBC News 26 () -- Royal Philips Electronics NV, Europe’s largest maker of televisions, will cut 6000 jobs and stop buying back shares after reporting its Philips to cut 6000 jobs after quarterly loss Philips admits first loss in six years
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