Ok so this is whats happening....i have a 2002 stratus 3.0L.......leave work one day it doesnt start..sounds like a battery...i change the battery and replace the terminal end on the - cable b/c it was really corroded...i start it up and everything works just fine... i drive it that that night and everything is good...i get up the next morning..go to start the car and it doesnt start..i think ohh no its an alternator...so i go to work comeback later that night..the car starts fine...so to be safe i pull the positive post off while the car is running to check the alternator..the car stays running..so i drive it to autozone get the man to check the battery and the alternator..they check out fine..i drive it for about 2 more days everything is fine...and then i go to start it again and it wont start...does anyone have any idea? please help

 

it sounds like you may have a bad connection somewhere...is your battery original? mine went bad about two months ago

 

the cables could be coroded...the poitive post has about 3 wires going to it..and there is a black plastic box that all the wires go to before they hit the + post any ideas what that is?

 

no..ive often wondered that myself, but i dont know alot about wiring, so i dont mess with that stuff. i could guess that it is a resistor box of some sorts...

 

I had this very same problem with my 2000 ES. I leave and go to work and when I left work to come home my car would not start, sometimes for several hours. Also my lights would flicker a little intermittently. I took it to the dealerships, who came up with every from bad BCM to some wierd electrical problem. In my car, the battery sits in front of the right front wheel. I went to thoroughly check the connections and discovered that where the negative cable mounts to the engine wall was never factory tightened down properly. I loosened that connection a quarter turn and my car died. I simply retightened it very snug and have had no problem since. Seems that at the manufacturer, this was not tightened down all the way as the paint was almost untouched. Good luck.

 

I had this very same problem with my 2000 ES. I leave and go to work and when I left work to come home my car would not start, sometimes for several hours. Also my lights would flicker a little intermittently. I took it to the dealerships, who came up with every from bad BCM to some wierd electrical problem. In my car, the battery sits in front of the right front wheel. I went to thoroughly check the connections and discovered that where the negative cable mounts to the engine wall was never factory tightened down properly. I loosened that connection a quarter turn and my car died. I simply retightened it very snug and have had no problem since. Seems that at the manufacturer, this was not tightened down all the way as the paint was almost untouched. Good luck.