[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

[Spooner]

Thanks guys for your advice. The car seems fine now, except for the headlights not working. There definitely is a breaker in the circuit with the headlight switch, though. The diagrams I have in my Haynes manual confirm it. There's also a fusable link on that circuit. So it's one or the other or both.

But the owners' manual says that if there's a power surge (which is what appeared to happpen) it'll trip the breaker, so it makes sense to try that first. I still have no idea how to find it, though. Could it be part of or near the headlight switch, since it's on the same basic circuit, according to Haynes?

Thanks,

-John