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Old 04-30-2010 | 07:42 AM
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I have a 2002 Mazda 626 which I recently bought from a major Mazda dealer. I'm having strange issues: the car often won't start, sometimes 3 times in a day - it won't do anything, all of the lights and radio are dead. The only thing that works is to open and close the drivers side door and/or the trunk several times until the lights come back on. There's obviously a short or bad wire somewhere in either the trunk or doors. My car has also stalled out at a busy intersection and I had to open and close the door...
Does this model have some sort of shut-off switch that if the car thinks the trunk is open is will stall? How difficult/expensive is it to fix and electrical problem in the doors?


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Old 05-06-2010 | 05:25 AM
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If the positive is on then you put the negative on and it sparks you have a draw somewhere. especially since its a 69' impala. put a test light in series with the negative cable and pull fuses one at a time until light goes out. when it does. thats the circuit that has a draw. make sure your door is closed and glove box closed and if it has a light in trunk or anything like that its off. then find schematic for that circuit and plug fuse back in and follow schematic and unplug each thing one at a time until light goes out and you found your problem.
 
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Old 05-06-2010 | 05:26 AM
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yes, and it is by far the most common cause of illness. the source is misalignment of the uppermost neck vertebra impinging the spinal cord as it passes through it's center. this produces a pattern of short-circuiting of various nerve tracts, in turn causing various symptoms in the tissues receiving the resulting distorted nerve commands from the brain.
 
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Old 05-07-2010 | 05:46 AM
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Thank you!
Turns out the battery cable clamp was split almost in two and wasn't making a connection. I would have thought Mazda would have discovered that when I brought it in to them, but they didn't....
So it's fixed!
Thank you!
 
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