Friday, September 23, 2011

Electrical problem with car?

I have 02 hyundai elantra. Recently I left my lights running over night and drained my BATTERY. A guy on the road tried to give me a jump start. One of us, messed up and jumped it wrong resulting into fumes from wires and failure to start the car. It was towed to garage, and they repaired it by changing batteries and some electrical work. It costed me some $400. Now, I haven't worked with this guys before and I found bill little expensive.

I recently realized that my break lights and high beam don't work on both sides. The garage wants me to get the car back there and find the fault. There is no estimate. I am on budget. Does any one have any idea, what could be wrong? how much it should cost?Electrical problem with car?400.00 Isn't bad for electrical problems. The problem with wiring problems is you have no idea where the problem is. That's what takes so much time. It might be an easy fix, sometimes its not. MANY repair shops charge electrical work by the hour and not flat rate like most jobs. I believe 400 is fair, depending on how long it took them to find it. Now with that said- it might cost you more than that to fix you're other light problem. Sorry, electrical sucks!Electrical problem with car?Anything to do with electrical work can be expensive. There is now way to really give an proper estimate on wiring, it's all by the hour,it could take 5 minutes or 5 hours. Take the car back to how started working on it, they might have an idea of whats give on, because they've already worked on it. Good luck.Electrical problem with car?If all they charged you was $400 to track down who knows what kind of electrical mess you got off real cheap.



You likely have more blown fuses. Take it back to the same shop and if your lucky they will replace the fuses for free as part of the previous repair.



If you jump start most cars wrong now-a-days you usually have to buy a computer that costs well over $1000!Electrical problem with car?he screwed you. go to another garage