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Spooner
post Apr 5 2005, 05:05 AM
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Background: I went to pick my car up today after getting the T2R installed. The shop owner drove it maybe five to eight miles this a.m. to make sure the gears sounded okay. It started up and ran fine for him. I got there, paid him, grabbed the keys and walked to the car. Nothing. No interior lights and it wouldn't even turn over. (Car has the original battery from 1999. I was going to replace it this summer.)

So we attempted to charge the battery with a plug-in charger. The lights came on and everything worked for a few seconds, while the charger was attached. Then it started acting funny, drawing huge amounts of current for a second or two, then switching back to charging normally. So we stopped that (quickly) and got a new battery. We installed that and everything came on and the car started right up--it idled sluggishly at first, which it has never done before, but it was fine after a few seconds.

Everything appears to be fine, now, but the headlights. They won't turn on. The foglights and dash lights work fine. The owners manual says the headlights are "protected by a circuit breaker" but it doesn't say how to find the breaker. Does anyone know where it is?

Thanks in advance!

-John
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Spooner   help with electrical system   Apr 5 2005, 05:05 AM
trackbird   Sounds like you may have a shorted cell in the old...   Apr 5 2005, 05:11 AM
Spooner   Thanks Kevin. The old battery is now history. Good...   Apr 5 2005, 05:14 AM
Eugenio_SS   was thinking crank positioning sensor initially......   Apr 5 2005, 05:39 AM
pknowles   If the battery was left off long enough then all o...   Apr 5 2005, 11:27 AM
Teutonic Speedracer   QUOTE (trackbird @ Apr 5 2005, 12:11 AM)And, ...   Apr 5 2005, 11:32 AM
Spooner   Thanks guys for your advice. The car seems fine no...   Apr 5 2005, 01:38 PM
Soma07   Have you checked the fusebox in the dash? Its on t...   Apr 5 2005, 02:35 PM
Ojustracing   You need to check 2 things, Fuse #5 in fuse panel ...   Apr 5 2005, 03:01 PM
Spooner   Jason, I did have a look at that. (All the fuses ...   Apr 5 2005, 03:19 PM
Ojustracing   I was looking at the wiring diagram when posting t...   Apr 5 2005, 05:19 PM
Spooner   John, PM sent. Thanks! -John   Apr 5 2005, 06:19 PM
Spooner   Well, thanks to John's help, I fixed my headla...   Apr 13 2005, 10:40 PM
pknowles   I can't remember if its the BCM or the PCM tha...   Apr 14 2005, 12:14 PM
Obssd   Glad to hear you got the headlights figured out. ...   Apr 14 2005, 07:10 PM
Spooner   Obssd, Indeed there is. Nice recall and thanks......   Apr 14 2005, 08:30 PM

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