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02295 Re: Our minivan is on the fritz:<br><iframe height=50% allowfullscreen src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PUMgEeOkfPw?autoplay=0&version=3">&l
   ...let kathy work on it. She's good on auto electronics.
ribit   6TH POPE   20 Jun 2020
1:55 AM
02281 Re: Our minivan is on the fritz
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6TH POPE   19 Jun 2020
11:34 PM

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By: micro in 6TH POPE
Fri, 19 Jun 20 11:11 PM
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the alternator is what charges the battery and it works by being driven by a Belt over the alternator pully and then sends the electrical current to the battery...

If the batetry is not being charged while driving the car from the alternator, the battery will go dead.

The Alternator could be stretched and not taught enough causing it to slip and that would do same thing. Fail to charge the battery when driving...

So the problem may well NOT BE the battery. The battery is a SYMPTOM of a problem with whatever is supposed to be charging it, the alternator or that belt that spins the alternator pulley.