Lucky me.
When it comes to pulling a Uhaul trailer, the big one, my van works good. That is until yesterday. My future SIL is moving to Beaverton from Corvallis after graduating from OSU. He starts a real job Monday.
So with a loaded trailer we left Corvallis headed to Beaverton. Only 5PM or so we hit I-5 and I notice the battery gauge is lower than it usually is. I turn off the lights and it goes up some. As we drive on I notice it going lower. Off goes the radio, GPS, fan and anything to save power. As we get closer to beaverton the gauge is getting very low. I guess the lowest mark is 8 and so when does this thing die. We have people arriving to unload the trailer so I will keep driving until it quits or we make it. Well we did make it and then I took the battery out and off to get another one. Great thing about GPS is finding a store. The closest Autozone was about 5 miles away and I bought a battery and off we drove. Installed the batt and it looked like everything was AOK. But then the battery light came back on. We made it home and I charged up the batt before returning the Uhaul. Removed the alternator and had it tested and they said it was good. Installed new belt but when I started it up the same battery light came back on. Oh well another thing to work on...........
