Re: Weird Cutoff

[jcadman@ix.netcom.com (Jeffrey Cadman)]

>>     All electricals are *completely* dead: no lights, not even the 
temperature
>>     display on the climate control. Cursory glance at the belt 
reveals
>>     nothing, and I go and call for the AAA tow-truck.
>> 
>>     And now the mystery starts. Settling down in the car to wait for 
the
>>     truck, I try the ignition just for the heck of it. Car starts 
right up,
>>     as if nothing had happened! No weak battery, no nothing !
>

I had the same thing happen to me last weekend when I tried to start my 
car.  Got in, put the key in and turned off the alarm - all normal so 
far.  Try to start it and KA-PUT! - all lights go out, can't even lock 
the damn thing!  So I chilled out in the A/C at my apt. for a while 
fuming - this does not look like a cheap problem!  Pull the back seat 
out to check the battery, hit the negative cable and the car goes 
haywire - alarm screaming!

Check your battery cables - lots cheaper than that new computer!

Jeff Cadman
'86 5kcsq