Get this: Sunday night I'm driving home from Jones Beach after seeing a concert... I'm driving like 80mph going down a long stretch of highway that I wasn't familiar with- in fact I was going the wrong way.... Then all of a sudden my radio goes dead- 5 seconds later my ABS light comes on- another 10 seconds later my THEFT light comes on- then more and more dash lights- finally the car loses complete power and comes to a stop.... It was very weird, like close encounters or something.... I thought I drove through a magnetic field!! WTF??? :shrug: I said! Luckily my cell phone worked and I called 911 to dispatch a tow truck- I also called a friend who lived nearby as well as Ford Roadside Assistance. I had NO IDEA where I was and after walking about 500 ft. to a roadsign and getting bit a hundred times by bugs, I was able to tell the tow company where to find me. My friend arrived and shortly after the tow truck came. It was a nightmare!! I had the car towed to my friends house then in the morning I had it towed to a Ford dealer in Long Island. They gave me a Dodge Intrepid (loaner) from Enterprise. I called them today and they said they are still working on it and didn't yet determine what happened (yeah, sure, you know they didn't even start!) I checked the belt, thought maybe it snapped but it was ok. It seems either my alternator died or there's some other electrical problem. When it started to die, it looked like it was running on whatever was left of the battery power.... :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:
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