Electrical Help Please!

[Defiant]

Is your battery tied down? Do you have the positive terminal covered with the vinyl protector so that it can't ground out against the hood or a strut bar?
Sounds like a classic case of poor grounding, or poor contact. Pull your main fuses -on the battery cable- and make sure they're not corroded, and check your grounding points for corrosion.

 

[Defiant]

Gosh, server stutters are such fun.

 

[DSMTC03]

I searched around and couldn't find a thread with the exact same symptoms as me. Anyways, I need some help hopefully from someone who has had a similar problem as me. The car is a 1997 420a Eclipse RS. The car will start and run fine sometimes but other times I will turn the key and have nothing. No accessories, idiot lights, headlights, door locks, windows, nothing. It is almost as if the battery is totally disconnected. Then I will turn the key on and off a few times and I will get power and it will start right up and run perfectly. My clock on my radio will be reset as if I unhooked the battery. As long as I don't turn the car off, it will continue to run perfectly. I have driven it over 40 miles after getting it started this way with no problems whatsoever. I have a brand new battery and my alternator is putting out around 14V. My battery light usually comes on when I am driving but my battery doesn't lose a charge even after 40 miles of driving. I am wondering if it is the ignition switch itself or perhaps ECU or maybe something simple. I cleaned my battery connections just to be sure and I checked my fuses. I am really stumped. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[andrewjscott]

I had that problem, Started once and a while, but got worse and worse. I'd hear a weird buzzing sometimes. First check the ground and try to find any shotty wiring, there could be a draw somewhere. I even threw a battery charger on it and it always said the battery was charged. As it turns out I had a dead short in the battery (or so i'm told) got a new one and have not had a problem since.

 

[t0ny007]

Your battery may not be grouded good.