Oh Hell.....

Well tonight "Ol' Reliable" crapped out on me. My '99 Malibu with the 3100 V6 while on my way home at like 9:30 at night in the freezing cold 20 degree night completely died. I was driving along and my battery light was on. Now this was on when I went to work and I had no choice I had to drive home like that. So my instrument panel was noticably dimmer than usual and my high beam headlights were actually dimmer than my lows. So while crusiing along I started to see more dash lights. ABS was the next light to come on followed by the Airbag light. So I started shutting things off to conserve power since I knew my battery was now dying. I shut off my foglights, CD, and heat. Next thing to come on was the Theft System light which is odd because my Malibu doesn't have one. It was about that time I lost all my outside lights, inside backlighting, and had really weak turn signals. Then the Brake light came on then the Service Vehicle Soon light (No ****ing kidding, thanks OBDII!) and finally Oil Pressure followed by Check Engine. Then I lost my instruments. The tach, speedo, fuel, and temp gagues all dropped and my digital odometer and PNRD123 display vanished. I pulled into the parking lot of a bar I was nearby with my engine still running and managed to park somewhere and shut my engine off.

I called my dad and told him what happened and while waiting for him to show up played a game of pool which I won. :highfive: Go Dope...... He showed up and we had the idea to jump the car. We jumped it and it ran and I had power. So we let it run for a few minutes then quickly took off. We got about 300 feet from the bar when it all happened again and this time the engine cut out. Of course being a 99 I'm more than positive the fuel pump and fuel injectors were electrically operated unlike the mechanical fuel pump and carb on my Caddy. Well now I'm stuck in the middle of the road and my father has vanished prolly not realizing he's lost me. Well **** me, here I am, pitch black with absolutely NO electrical and NO hazard flashers.

So I'm outside waving a flashlight to signal cars not to smash into my Chevy or myself while I call my dad to turn the **** around and stand with me. No tow trucks would come out when we called our AAA-like service through the warranty company for the car so I called the cops and got it towed through a local wrecker to my shop.

Well so what do you guys think happened? My dad had a similar experience one night when he was driving home. The battery light came on and then the ABS light but nothing else, no dim displays or anything like that. He took it into the shop and the battery failed a load test so they put a brand new Interstate battery in. That was a few days ago and now this happens. battery's new so it can't be that. I'm guessing alternator but I dunno because when they tested the battery they tested that too and it was fine. I'm at a loss here, any thoughts?