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My 96 SET started having strange electrical problems a few days ago. I noticed that the turn signals, windows, and other parts of the electrical system didn't work while I was driving the car. It happened on and off for two days of commuting to and from work. On the last trip home when the windows and turn signals weren't working again, I decided to turn the car off and restart it while waiting at a light. The car certainly turned off, in trying to restart it, I couldn't get it to crank. I left it parked and
came back with my wife to have her push start it with the other car. We
were able to push start it fine.
After reading a bunch of useful stuff here, I replaced the ignition switch
which had pretty clearly failed and caused the strange electrical symptoms.
Even with that switch replaced, the engine would not crank. I found the
starter relay that's buried in that horrible location behind the plastic
in the foot well and verified that voltage was heading out the to the
started when the key in the ignition was set to start. We push started the
car again to confirm that everything else was working ok. It seemed
very unlikely that both the ignition switch and the starter would fail
simultaneously but I we dropped it off at the mechanic and confirm the
the starter had indeed failed. I don't know if a bad ignition switch can
fail in such a way as to burn out the solenoid on the starter, but clearly
two things failed at the same time for me.
Thanks to previous posters on ignition switches which helped me get this
partly figured out on my own.
posted by 76.102.32...
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