M and S lights flashing.
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nothing still. Everything is tight and in place.
here is the run down. Once I connect the battery everything that is electrical runs except for the starter. Once I try to ignite the engine its almost like everything "short-circuits". After that nothing turns on, nothing. Its almost like when I try starting it it sucks everything out of the battery. And this is a brand spanking new battery. oh snap
here is the run down. Once I connect the battery everything that is electrical runs except for the starter. Once I try to ignite the engine its almost like everything "short-circuits". After that nothing turns on, nothing. Its almost like when I try starting it it sucks everything out of the battery. And this is a brand spanking new battery. oh snap
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nothing still. Everything is tight and in place.
here is the run down. Once I connect the battery everything that is electrical runs except for the starter. Once I try to ignite the engine its almost like everything "short-circuits". After that nothing turns on, nothing. Its almost like when I try starting it it sucks everything out of the battery. And this is a brand spanking new battery. oh snap
here is the run down. Once I connect the battery everything that is electrical runs except for the starter. Once I try to ignite the engine its almost like everything "short-circuits". After that nothing turns on, nothing. Its almost like when I try starting it it sucks everything out of the battery. And this is a brand spanking new battery. oh snap
I went out to my truck one morning, unlocked it with the fob, hopped in the drivers' seat, and nothing, no click, no nothing. I popped the hood, checked the connections everything looked and felt good. I let it sit for a few seconds while I scratched my head, hopped back in and got the chime when the key was in the ignition, turned the key, got a click and everything went out, just like everything "fried." Repeated this process over and over to no avail.
I did notice after letting it sit for a second I could watch the clock slowly come back on, tried starting it again, but the clock went out again, then slowly came back on.
Finally after cleaning the battery terminals to a shine, coating the connections with di-e grease, and clamping them down with a pair of pliers, it fired right up and has been incident free for the last few weeks.
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Keep your pants you're fine I had the SAME EXACT situation the other day. Check and make sure the connections at the battery are TIGHT. Any looseness and you won't get a good enough connection (I barely had enough connection for the clock on the inside. Use some di-electric grease on the battery cable terminals and that should get you going, then clamp the terminals down to make sure they are snug.
Get back to us after trying this.
Get back to us after trying this.
It freaking worked. Incredible. wow
I can't thank you enough!
It worked as soon as I applied some nice di-electric grease.
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HAHA! Not even close I was just lucky enough to have dealt with the same baffling issue last month. Glad to help out (as others here have done for me) and glad it all worked out and didn't cost you a fortune trying to figure it out.
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Just to add to this discussion in case someone else has to research the issue. I had the flashing m/s lights issue and eventually got a new battery. That helped for the most part. I did not have the issue for a while then had it a couple of times. This was much better as I was having it 4 or 5 times a week before I replaced the battery. But still was annoying. I decided to clean the connectors again and while I was i inspected them very close. and saw that even though they looked smooth even shiny on the inside of the ring there was a significant amount of the inner ring that was another color. I grabbed a screw driver and lightly scraped and it started flaking off. It was light corrosion of some other material had been compacted and smoothed out so that just using the cleaner was not enough. Once I scraped it out I sanded it until smooth. I have not had another issue with the flashing lights.
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