[MR2] '89 S/C electrically died on the weekend

[Donald Chalfant]

Did you check the fusible links on the cables that go to the battery 
connections?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Liam Greenwood" <liammr2 at gmail.com>
To: "MR2 List" <mr2 at mr2.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 7:33 PM
Subject: [MR2] '89 S/C electrically died on the weekend


> Hi
>
> My '89 S/C has been sitting mostly unused since the end of 2007,  and so
> the battery has gone flat a few times.  I've been putting off getting a
> new battery as it's a bit of a pain to change them for the mechanically
> inept such as I :-).  I've been jumpstarting it every few weeks and then
> running for a while.  I jumped it 3 weekends ago and it started fine, I
> went to jump it this weekend and it's dead.  No juice to anything that I
> can see.  No lights on the dash, the alarm doesn't complain when the
> jumper cables are attached, no hazard flashers, zip, zero.  Dead as a
> doorknob.  I tried another battery in it, and still nothing. I called
> the Viper alarm people and they say that even if the alarm box died it
> would only cut power to the starter, not to everything.
>
> As all I have done with it for months is drive the S10 up to it, connect
> cables, jumpstart it, let it run and turn it off the only thing I can
> think is that one of the times I got the cables on the wrong terminals
> and something didn't like it.  I tried the main engine relay out of the
> '86 and still no juice to anything.  It's like the main circuit breaker
> to the house is off - but I don't know what in the MR2 would act like
> that and cut off all power to everything when it dies.
>
> To make matters worse, it died the weekend I was listing it for sale :-(
> - as I didn't want to just watch it sit and rot from lack of time, money
> and use.
>
> Any pointers would be most gratefully received.
>
> Thank you
> Cheers, Liam
>
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