I was a little lost yesterday with a hiccup the S had... hoping someone here can shed some light on it.

I was out running errands, parked the S and came back to it about 15 minutes later. When I turned the key and pushed the start button I heard a click, that in my experience, sounded like a fuse popped. All the lights on my dash went dead. Of course I just cleaned out my trunk and forgot to through my tool kit back in so I didn't even have needle nose to pull the fuses to check them. I didn't see any burnt ones when I opened up all the boxes. Tried the key again, no lights, no cigar. Not even the unlock/lock on my alarm worked. (Of course this had to happen with the top down)

Couldn't find anything as far as a scorched wire or ground. Called a friend to come pick me up. Out of habit when I got into his car I hit my lock button and heard the horn sound... figured I'd try it one time and what do you know... the damn thing fired right up, no problem.

Is there some sort of safety switch that could have caused this? Obviously not a fuse like I was originally thinking.

 

Sounds like the main relay. Never actually changed one, so not sure where its located in the S.

But if its this, it will happen again. Its easy to change and not terribly expensive.

 

Sounds like dirty terminals on the battery to me.

 

For future reference, there is a fuse puller inserted in the under-dash fuse box. It's white.

 

guess the woman who I bought it from wanted a piece of her old car... it never came with it. Found out the hard way awhile back when my roof fuse blew when rain started to fall.

 

 

haha yea. So ordered a new main relay and not a few hours later it completely died in the gym parking lot. Went back today and still no cigar.

 

hmm if you are blowing up relays then it sounds like the voltage regulator is shot

also check the chassis grounds