re: Car died while driving issue

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think a car would still run without a battery.

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Until it doesn’t anymore. My daughter was driving her car home from a road trip this summer and it stopped on her as she was exiting the interstate. Couldn’t get it to do anything. 8 hours away so I couldn’t just go see what was going on. Sounded like maybe an alternator. Fortunately a couple of mechanically inclined guys stopped to help her (and the friends she was with). When they looked under the hood it turned out to be nothing more than a battery cable had worked itself loose. They tightened it up and it started right up and that was all that was wrong.

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I think a car would still run without a battery.

Had a battery cable pop off once and I arrived fine, but it wouldn’t start when I tried to get back.

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Years ago I was taking the poydras exit in Nola and hit a bump, the negative terminal popped off. My truck shut down and I coasted to a stop, landed right at the y intersection