My wife's Escape is dead...it would kill batteries nearly once a month, AAA was tired of coming and replacing their batteries under warranty. When they would come and check, their diagnostic service showed a fully functional alternator.
We ended up replacing the alternator for about $500 a few months back, and everything has been fine.
Today, my wife tried to start her car. Usually the gauges illuminate on the "ON" key position, they do a range from 0 to Max when powered up, then the car would start after the starter would crank in the "START" position. I did that this afternoon after she said it would not start, and the gauges illuminated and then were "hung up" on their Max positions. I turned the ignition off, and tried to restart. Click, then nothing. No power to any lights, gauge pod, nothing.
Battery is fine, shows full voltage. Tried to jump, but no connection...like there is a blown fuse. I checked every fuse in the engine bay power distribution center as well as the kick panel fuse center. Nothing blown.
Does this sound like a bad/dead ignition switch? The only thing making me thing that it is not that is even with the key out/not present, I still have power door locks/lights/power seats operating...but this time I have NOTHING. Like not just a bad battery but zero battery. But all fuses are good. Bad relay somewhere?
My wife says this is the last straw and wants to trade it in, but we owe about $1K less than trade-in value and I don't think we'd break even if we had to tow it into the dealership.
Thoughts?
We ended up replacing the alternator for about $500 a few months back, and everything has been fine.
Today, my wife tried to start her car. Usually the gauges illuminate on the "ON" key position, they do a range from 0 to Max when powered up, then the car would start after the starter would crank in the "START" position. I did that this afternoon after she said it would not start, and the gauges illuminated and then were "hung up" on their Max positions. I turned the ignition off, and tried to restart. Click, then nothing. No power to any lights, gauge pod, nothing.
Battery is fine, shows full voltage. Tried to jump, but no connection...like there is a blown fuse. I checked every fuse in the engine bay power distribution center as well as the kick panel fuse center. Nothing blown.
Does this sound like a bad/dead ignition switch? The only thing making me thing that it is not that is even with the key out/not present, I still have power door locks/lights/power seats operating...but this time I have NOTHING. Like not just a bad battery but zero battery. But all fuses are good. Bad relay somewhere?
My wife says this is the last straw and wants to trade it in, but we owe about $1K less than trade-in value and I don't think we'd break even if we had to tow it into the dealership.
Thoughts?