was driving my dad's base 2010 2.0l sentra to work and the alt died stranding me on the road. Had hazards on for 15 minutes and the hazards stopped working, running the hazards alone was enough to drain the batt within about 15 minutes while I was on the side of a local road.
Back at home, threw the battery on charger after cleaning the fuck out of the terminals and connectors because they were caked with blue corrosion, it literally charged in 30 minutes when it was completely drained so i knew for a fact that the batt also went bad (bat was like 10 years old so it needed to be replaced anyways) coated the batt terminals and connectors with dielectric grease and sprayed anti corrosion on anything metal after i tightened the connectors to the terminals.
Car starts and if I remove ground engine dies. Ordered and picking up a third party alt w/ 25% off online only order at pboys tomorrow w/ core swap and install.
also stupid front splash guard fell on passenger side so gonna have to add a washer and gonna rivet the back end so I won't have to deal with it ever again. That, or i'll just remove the front splash guard all together.