she wont start

cjpp78

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Driving down the road and stereo lights start flashing off and on plus dash lights. when I shut car off and try and start again it does nothing, starter doesn't even click. Also have no dash lights or anything inside car electric, headlights will come on though. I pushed the car off and it ran and everything works while its running but if I let off gas it goes dead and will not start. what could this be?
 

supra90turbo

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Have you checked the connections on the battery? May just be a lucky break that it runs when you pop-start the car.
My mom's 04 Grand Cherokee just did this and it was a bad cable where it attached to the terminal at the battery.
 

cjpp78

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Haven't taken wires from battery terminal to check.. but makes no sense that head lights work but not dash lights or other electric stuff in car. Battery also shows 12volts. I know alternator is going bad and was loud right before this happened. when I pushed the car off, dash lights were very bright even though alternator wasn't doing much according to my safc volt reading.
 

cjpp78

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thanks for help guys but it was just the 100amp alternator fuse. I had soldered it together one day a long time ago when I didn't have one on hand to get car started. Never thought about it again. New fuse and its fine.lol