My car's cool.
 

Well after thinking it was all good...it's not.
Replaced the alternator a couple weeks ago, and it was pretty much all good.
Today I was going to leave somewhere, I got in my car and it wouldn't start, nothing was working, not even the seatbelts. I opened the hood and looked at it and was just like wtf, then I hear everything clicking and beeping. So I drove it and it was fine, I was installing my friends cd player in his S10 and let him take my car, it stalled 3 times on him (battery/alternator/power problem) and he had to push it back to my house. I'm guessing a wire from my alternator to my battery is bad...anyway I can determine this?

Update: Checked all the wires, one of the wires connecting to the alternator via ring terminal was burnt to ****, I'm gonna get a new terminal tomorrow and hook it back up...my question is...what caused this?

heat, friction, short circuit, to much amperage on the wire due to bad internal voltage regulator witch makes for squishy plastic on the wire (heat) could be a few more things, use a fluke and test the voltage and the amperage after you install the new one, make sure its not rubbing on anything either....

So, if I have a short somewhere, can I detect it by looking at like the wires? Or is there no way to find out where it's at?

Update: Checked all the wires, one of the wires connecting to the alternator via ring terminal was burnt to ****, I'm gonna get a new terminal tomorrow and hook it back up...my question is...what caused this?

...Or in my case my dad 'test driving' my max after I put new axles in and showing me 'HOW TO GET THE BRIGHTS AND LOW BEAMS ON AT THE SAME TIME.' After the car stalled he said 'let me handle this' and began rolling the car backward the wrongway down the street (to shorten the distance I would have to walk by roughly 7 ft.) AND then ran completely over a median. When the cops shined their lights on my car I knew I was definitely going to jail, but they were cool about it and even gave me a jump start. Even the cops cringed as my Y-pipe screeched against the median...

Z

lol...i woulda slapped the p1ss outta my dad if he did that sh1t to my car :slap: