kreipe

Even though this battery is less than a year old I've had some problems with it. The positive cable tends to come loose and then it won't start, even when all the lights and radio work. I have to them twist the cable to make better contact with the post. When I go through this exercise I don't loose enough power to drop the presets or clock. I just re-tightened the nut in the connector when I get home. I've never had this problem while driving. You might be on to something here. I'll check the tightness of that cable.

I might experiment to see if when the car is running and I disconnect the battery, will the car still run? Or can anyone answer that for me?

Thanks!

This morning while driving to work (40mph) the car completely shut down. As I was coasting to the side of road the whole car came back to life and kept going. I am completely baffled. I had no loss of clock time or radio station presets. Has anyone got a clue to what happened? My first guess is the ignition somehow shorted out and then fixed itself, but that sounds too crazy.

Any help would be appreciated.

(BTW: it is the coldest day in a long time - 12F)

As a followup...

The tire pressures in the front tires were unusually high. (Added air at the station w/o a guage and forgot to adjust them when I got home). Adjusted them to 32psi and lights have not come on. This car does NOT have tire pressure sensors. Guess the jarring effect caused the lights to come on???

1997 ES300 170,000 miles.

In the past week I've noticed that intermittently the "TCS off" light has been blinking and the ABS light has come on simultaneously.

How would I remedy this? I'm thinking that it's a sensor problem. But assistance would be appreciated.

New to the Group, and Thanks for the guidance!!

Recently purchased my 97 ES300 with a broken radio LCD display. After reading these posts, it was reassuring that it was a fixable problem. With the instructions found here the entire job took 30 minutes.

Thanks