Wayne,
Look for a faulty or dying Fuse. They do age and wear out with use.
Michelle

Wayne Crannell wrote:

>Here's one for the experts...
>
>2001 Audi A6, 50000 miles.
>
>This has been a fairly trouble free car except for front end woes fixed
>under warranty and one electrical gremlin that occasionally blows fuses
>to the rear power outlet (lighter).
>
>Anyway, my wife drove it all day in the rain today, starting and
>stopping at various places with no apparent troubles. Tonight, she
>stopped for 20 minutes, and when she came back to it to start it, all
>she got was clicking. She tells me the interior lights were fairly dim.
>OK...so after she panicked a bit on the phone, she called back and said
>that the interior lights got bright and the car started. The only
>remaining symptom was that the radio is in "safe mode" as though the
>battery had been disconnected.
>
>So....it sounds like a dying battery that couldn't turn over the
>starter....except why would there be low juice at first and then enough
>to start it 10 minutes later? It wouldn't be a loose connection, because
>there should have been no power at all. I'd suspect the alternator, but
>then the battery should have just died and stayed dead. Could it be the
>starter itself -- can the starter gears "jam"? (for lack of a better
>term) Moisture somewhere? Or just the usual 2001 A6 electrical gremlins?
>
>You can certainly see that figuring this out could run into serious
>money as the mechanic spends hours and hours looking for something that
>is no longer there -- until the next time, that is.
>
>Maybe time for new battery, at least?
>
>
>

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