Minty91GXE

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i'm sitting at the stop light. i flick my high beams out of boredom. the whole car vibrates when i flick them on - stops when i stop. what is so strange is that it does not seem to be localized around the alternator or anything, the whole car just kind of hums heavily. i'm stumped
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Scope

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When yoou turn the high beams on the engine has to pull out additional power so the rev increases just by a few 100rpm. next time when you do that look at the tach. You'll see it go up a little

Jeff92se

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What?? The engine doesn't automatically rev when the high beams are on. If the car is dying or vibrating when the HBs are one, something is wrong with your charging system

LvR

Try the experiment again - this time ensure you have a decent earth wire going to the sound system and turn down the volume?..................

Scope

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I don't mean that it revs like it's going to somewhere I mean you can look at the tach and see it fluctuate for about a second then it idles again. My mother's 03 Altima does the same.

BTW I keep my sound to a decent level unless I see some chicks.

Hectic

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heh, hope you keep in mind that you want to be playing some r&b or something when you do that. anyway, when my car is idling and i close my window when the weak motor/regulator struggles, my rpms drop for a second. don't know why that would be though power window can't be sucking up that much juice..maybe the battery is low. i'll charge it and see if it fixes it. you should try the same.

internetautomar

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the motor can suck up that much juice if its that bad

goon9

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Mine used to simlutate that, not as bad as it sounds, but with a new alternater it never happened again.

Maxima-4DSC

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weird, i can have the radio on, high beams, interior lights, ect....no drain...VE POWA !! lol just kidding...check your alternator then the batt....