Originally Posted by 0sevenRam

just want to say thanks dirtydog for all your time

when i got home the key fob worked and i turned the key to on posistion and everything seemed fine. went inside to change into some warm work clothes and guess what....no power again and i meen nothing. so i popped the hood and heard some really quick clicking from behind the cluster, maybe about 3-4 seconds. all power back (so now im thinkin lose wire). the ground wire on the battery terminal was wigglable, not lose but not tight. I have tightened that up.

went out for a drive everything seems fine except the Fuel consumption estimate in the overhead console. it is all over the place. In a 5 minute drive it went down to 13.0 up then down then up..........

no codes have displayed on the dash, but i am going back out in about 10 mins to see if there is still power, I will plug in the scanner to see if any codes are pending.

I'm hoping this is just as simple as the ground being lose.

Originally Posted by semilemon

I had this EXACT same issue with the same year/model... turned out to be a broken negative battery terminal. Fixed it with an $8 replacement end and haven't had any issues since.