Guy\'s can anyone help on this please.. I am stumped!
I decided to fit a new turbo timer I had keying around.. Old HKS one.. So I bought a new HKS harness to make life easy. When I went to fit it I found there was already a harness there but it had been cut about a bit and also seemed to be wired to some relays? The old timer was not HKS but had the same plug. It also had an auto timer function so I am guessing the relays and bits may have something to do with this, altough there is a big green one which looks factory? Also the car has remote start altough I have never used it as I don\'t have the alarm master key to set it with. Maybe they are to do with that?
I tried te timer on the exisitng harness and it lit up but dd not power down the car. On trying to remove the existing harness I could not trace all the wires as they appeared to join into the main loom and I did not want to risk cut anything I shouldn\'t so I just plugged the new harness in line with this to the back of the ignition barrel.
Conected up the turbo timer and ran the car. went or a drive.. came back ignition off and the car kept running.. Great.. Until it didn\'t shutdown! So I tried to turn the timer off and the car kept running still.. Then I put my head under the dash and unplugged the timer from the loom. Car still ran! In the end I had to pull the negative terminal off the battery. Can ran for a few seconds (which paniced me) Then stopped!
So I pulled the new harness out and turbo timer. I noticed the new harness had two green wires that were spliced together accoss the main part of the loom where as the other one was not joined in this way? The two wires ran seperately It rings a bell reading that they are suppose to join? Anyway.. I connected the battery back up and started the car and noticed I now had the battery charge light on! If you revved the engine it dimmed down and would go out with enough revs After some searching it appeared the alternator must be damaged.. Maybe from when I pulled the battery terminal? I pulled the back off spare alernator I had with some fin damage and swapped this onto mine. Started the car.. Light went out after about 2 secs. Fine..
Drove the car today and I got about 2 miles down the road and the alternator light was on agian but in addition came on the ABS warning light?
This time revving the engine did not dim the light out either?
The battery has gone flat a couple of times recently in the cold weather where the car has not been used but it\'s been charged up and appears to have plenty of guts to spin the car over and start it? Saying that I did notice today that the windows were very slow going up and down?
Can someone please help and let me know what\'s going on? It\'s really trying my patience now!
Thank you
Lee