[Spooner]

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

[Teutonic Speedra...]

And, the computer was "reset" by the battery swap, and that may explain the sluggish start after the swap.

Exactly....like you think it's going to die, then it catches itself. Not sure about the circuit breaker. Check all your fuses and relays if you haven't already. I would also check your headlight switch/dimmer.