"Rebooting" Car

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I've been experiencing random system "glitches" lately from unrelated electrical systems, but not outright failures... Since my car has over 50k on it, I was wondering if it might be a good idea to actually "reboot" the car (by disconnecting the battery or some other method) in order to clear any spurious/bad information that might be stored in various places in the "system"?

I know that computers benefit from periodic restarts if nothing else, just to clear the RAM. Since our cars are essentially are rolling computers... Thoughts?

 

[EdP]

I've been experiencing random system "glitches" lately from unrelated electrical systems, but not outright failures... Since my car has over 50k on it, I was wondering if it might be a good idea to actually "reboot" the car (by disconnecting the battery or some other method) in order to clear any spurious/bad information that might be stored in various places in the "system"?

I know that computers benefit from periodic restarts if nothing else, just to clear the RAM. Since our cars are essentially are rolling computers... Thoughts?

I don't see any real downside to it. A few people here have mentioned that it helped them for various glitches, same with pulling a fuse for the specific item. Just pulling a cable and cleaning the terminal may help too.

 

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I don't see any real downside to it. A few people here have mentioned that it helped them for various glitches, same with pulling a fuse for the specific item. Just pulling a cable and cleaning the terminal may help too.

Yeah... like pulling & reinserting both the AC fuses "solved" my non-functional AC problem a few weeks back.

Is there one way or the other that's better for doing this or is it better to go "old school" & physically removing the cables from the battery? I've noticed these cars have a "master" fuse in the passenger compartment...

 

[PMCErnie]

While you are “rebooting” it, put a new battery in the car.

 

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While you are “rebooting” it, put a new battery in the car.

It may have the original battery... That could explain a lot of stuff as well.

 

[PMCErnie]

It may have the original battery... That could explain a lot of stuff as well.

Precisely!