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Dankmeme · 10-23-2023, 08:46 PM

At this point, I am getting tired of this car, I've owned it for four years took good care of it and yet GM's reckless designs of its convertible and mechanics turned my dream car into a night mare.

Basically, I am looking for a solution for yet another huge problem that at this point deserves the junk yard. I have a 2012 camaro Rs with 105k miles on it. I am driving home and the car starts acting erratic, the analogs were going up and down like crazy, the gas no longer worked, and the steering wheel locked up in the middle of the highway and before all that happens i hear "click-click" from the drivers side.. I try to start it, keeps turning over like the battery is dead.

So i started off by fixing the battery, thinking it was just bad. Nope, got a new battery, same thing. Then after heavy rain, I noticed that some water got into my trunk (thanks to gm's shitty convertible flaws) and I was like thats it, that has to be the issue. So i cleaned it out, tried to clean the wires by the battery and put it back together. It did it again even when the car was bone dry for weeks.

Then I noticed that the voltage of the alternator decreases, the arrow we have in the RS showed that it went down from 14 to 12 where the arrow was on the half mark. So I'm like thats it, that has to be the issue. I changed the alternator, recharged the battery and guess what??? it did it again, this time causing me to stall multiple times.

So now, what do I even do with this pile of rust? It drives fine for short distances and even sometimes on long distances its fine then it RANDOMLY just starts acting up, especially on long drives. This leads me to conclude that there is some kind of wiring issue but i don't even know what to do or where to start and I am also thinking it might be a bad body control module just because of the "click click" sound, but now I am not sure and I am tired of spending so much money on this car.

gtstorey · 10-25-2023, 09:01 PM

In attempt to steer this back to the original poster’s problem, all I can get from his symptoms are the car is shutting off. A lot of things can cause this. A faulty ECM is just one of many. The only thing I agree with is codes need to be checked. Beyond that, anything else is basically a guess.

10-23-2023, 08:46 PM	#1
Dankmeme Drives: 2012 Camaro RS 1lt Join Date: Aug 2020 Location: New York Posts: 18 View My Garage	2012 Camaro stalls at random At this point, I am getting tired of this car, I've owned it for four years took good care of it and yet GM's reckless designs of its convertible and mechanics turned my dream car into a night mare. Basically, I am looking for a solution for yet another huge problem that at this point deserves the junk yard. I have a 2012 camaro Rs with 105k miles on it. I am driving home and the car starts acting erratic, the analogs were going up and down like crazy, the gas no longer worked, and the steering wheel locked up in the middle of the highway and before all that happens i hear "click-click" from the drivers side.. I try to start it, keeps turning over like the battery is dead. So i started off by fixing the battery, thinking it was just bad. Nope, got a new battery, same thing. Then after heavy rain, I noticed that some water got into my trunk (thanks to gm's shitty convertible flaws) and I was like thats it, that has to be the issue. So i cleaned it out, tried to clean the wires by the battery and put it back together. It did it again even when the car was bone dry for weeks. Then I noticed that the voltage of the alternator decreases, the arrow we have in the RS showed that it went down from 14 to 12 where the arrow was on the half mark. So I'm like thats it, that has to be the issue. I changed the alternator, recharged the battery and guess what??? it did it again, this time causing me to stall multiple times. So now, what do I even do with this pile of rust? It drives fine for short distances and even sometimes on long distances its fine then it RANDOMLY just starts acting up, especially on long drives. This leads me to conclude that there is some kind of wiring issue but i don't even know what to do or where to start and I am also thinking it might be a bad body control module just because of the "click click" sound, but now I am not sure and I am tired of spending so much money on this car. __________________

10-25-2023, 09:01 PM	#2
gtstorey Drives: 2010 Camaro SS2,L99, LSA SC Join Date: Aug 2017 Location: Huntsville, AL Posts: 2,438	In attempt to steer this back to the original poster’s problem, all I can get from his symptoms are the car is shutting off. A lot of things can cause this. A faulty ECM is just one of many. The only thing I agree with is codes need to be checked. Beyond that, anything else is basically a guess.