1997 Ford tauraus. was running fine. i momentarily shut off my car. went to restart it - nothing, no turn over, nothing. heard a clicking coming from the fuse box (area). tried again, and it started. drove it home. in the morning. no power. no start. no power locks nothing. any ideas??
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no. i now have no power of any kind (not even auto lock). by now i'm sure the battery is dead. it's almost like there's a short. i should mention i recently had the dealership replace a coil asy - ignition. could this factor into it?
you need to measure your battery voltage with a meter, then try to jump the car off, disconnect the jumper cables and measure the battery voltage again. While running the battery voltage should be between 13.5 volts to 14.5 volts, this reading means that the altenator is working and charging your battery. If you hook up the jumper cables and you get no power at all inside the car, you need to check your fuseable link connection at the battery positive connection. I do not think that the dealer work is related to your problem directly, they may have disconnected your battery to perform the maintenance and mybe did not hook up all of the required wires when done, so check all the cables on the battery for connection and tightness. Let me know what you find....
do you have any power inside the car? dash lights, dome lights etc?
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