itselvis
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- First Name
- Elvis
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- Feb 13, 2019
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- The Bay Area, CA
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- 2016 Honda Civic Touring
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Hi to all!
I have a 2016 Honda Civic Touring and I use a Uniden R3 Radar Detector to display the battery voltage as my car is running.
Before I drive of course it is in Park mode I'm getting 14.2V, when I start to get on the road when I shift the car to drive, I notice the voltage drop gradually quickly around to the 12's and sometimes it goes up and down depending on how I am driving. I also notice when I accelerate it appears that the voltage goes down and when I release the gas letting inertia go, you see the voltage come back up, then when I get to a stop light I usually see the voltage drops down, sometimes I seen it as low as 11.8v. Or one time I was backing up (reverse) and I saw it shoot down to 11.5v. Just know that mainly my car runs between 12.1v-12.6v on normal city speed limits. I also notice that the voltage stays good when I'm driving in cooler weather and it seems like the car runs better, but during the day time I get the ups and downs...
I'm very close to 60K miles, I still have the original battery when I bought the car in January 2016.
So I'm curious if this is a normal thing the car does or is there something really wrong.
I have a 2016 Honda Civic Touring and I use a Uniden R3 Radar Detector to display the battery voltage as my car is running.
Before I drive of course it is in Park mode I'm getting 14.2V, when I start to get on the road when I shift the car to drive, I notice the voltage drop gradually quickly around to the 12's and sometimes it goes up and down depending on how I am driving. I also notice when I accelerate it appears that the voltage goes down and when I release the gas letting inertia go, you see the voltage come back up, then when I get to a stop light I usually see the voltage drops down, sometimes I seen it as low as 11.8v. Or one time I was backing up (reverse) and I saw it shoot down to 11.5v. Just know that mainly my car runs between 12.1v-12.6v on normal city speed limits. I also notice that the voltage stays good when I'm driving in cooler weather and it seems like the car runs better, but during the day time I get the ups and downs...
I'm very close to 60K miles, I still have the original battery when I bought the car in January 2016.
So I'm curious if this is a normal thing the car does or is there something really wrong.
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