Strange Low Voltage Drop

[Paulius005]

The first time I experienced this was during a lightning storm. A bolt of lightning hit in the sky and my Escort 8500 said Low Voltage, and my stereo shut off then everything turned back on in a second. This is happened two more time after this. Would this kind of problem be solved with a voltage stabilizer or is the more of an alternator type of problem? Or some freak accident with the lighning that results in me scrapping the car?

[CrackerTeg]

That's weird. I'd say you start with a basic alternator and battery load test. See what that gives you. The static electricity in the air could be fucking with things in a weird ass way.

[cna]

Double check all your grounds connections also . and before trying a voltage stabilizer have you upgraded the big 3 you might see improvement on your issue if so.

[Paulius005]

I already have a big 3 upgrade.

Battery and alternator tests are fine.

Now I'm confused.

I'm gonna go redo every ground i've ever touched then...,

[Mike]

I get a bit of a Voltage drop at times but, not enough for anything to turn off. What type of accessories do you have in your car? Is it possiable that something is shorting out.

[cna]

I know when i had a lose ground hanging around it caused my radio to turn of and on driving me crazy till i found and tighten it problem fixed.

[Paulius005]

yeah i gotta go through my fog grounds and amp grounds... i don't have subs yet just amped speakers.

[Mike]

Is it possible that your amp is drawing to much for your alternator to handle?

[CrackerTeg]

May not be if he's only pushing interior speakers. Like Clemente said, it could be a bad/ loose ground somewhere. Paulius has changed things from factory configuration so anything he's changed could be the culprit.

[Paulius005]

It was actually just a loose wire on my battery terminals... the one that goes to the fuse boxes.

My car actually ended up throwing a CEL so I immediately stopped and checked all my connections and found that.

[timot_one]

Good to see that you found the problem.  I was guessing it was a bad ground, but at least I wasn't too far of.

[Paulius005]

Yeah AutoZone ran the code at AutoZone and they said it was either a failed ECU or a short somewhere. I assumed since my car was moving it wasn't the ECU.