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Old Oct 29, 2010 | 12:57 PM
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My battery light is on its been on for 3 days turns on fine and everything any ideas of what it might be?
 
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Old Oct 29, 2010 | 01:45 PM
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Old Oct 29, 2010 | 02:12 PM
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Hate to state the obvious here, but have you taken your battery and alternator down to your local autozone\parts store and have them tested?
 
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Old Oct 29, 2010 | 08:17 PM
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My battery light is on its been on for 3 days turns on fine and everything any ideas of what it might be?
First suspect is corroded battery terminals which you can clean yourself with a wire brush or a specific tool for that available for $5 at any auto parts store.
If the terminals are clean and tight, next I would suspect the battery. As stated, any good parts store will load test it free of charge.
The alternator can be easily tested at home with a multimeter, again available cheap at an auto parts store, Wal Mart, Harbor Freight, etc.
By now you should be sensing a theme here that your solution lies where you will buy your parts to cure the problem.

And since you have known about this problem for 3 days, you should expect to wait more than an hour for anyone else to respond. If it isn't important enough to you to ask about it within a 3 day window of opportunity, why would you expect anyone else to respond within an hour's time?
 
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Old Oct 30, 2010 | 02:29 AM
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Auto parts stores can test both the battery and the alternator in the vehicle. No need to pull them.
 
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