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Daves55Sedan · 09-09-2018, 10:10 PM

Just pulled into my driveway in the '55 Courier and the entire electrical system shut down. Ignition shut itself off, no headlights, no courtesy lights, no dash lights. Nothing.
Had just enough time to check battery cable connections and they are perfectly clean and tight.
Same thing happened a couple weeks ago when I pulled into a parking spot at the grocery store. It just died and there was no battery power to anything. But the car started up again a minute later and everything miraculously had power again.
I guess the only other thing might be the ignition switch itself has gone bad or that the big yellow battery wire to the ignition switch is either loose or corroded. Will check tomorrow during daylight.

09-09-2018, 10:10 PM	#1
Daves55Sedan Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Granite City, Illinois Posts: 3,008	everything shuts down Just pulled into my driveway in the '55 Courier and the entire electrical system shut down. Ignition shut itself off, no headlights, no courtesy lights, no dash lights. Nothing. Had just enough time to check battery cable connections and they are perfectly clean and tight. Same thing happened a couple weeks ago when I pulled into a parking spot at the grocery store. It just died and there was no battery power to anything. But the car started up again a minute later and everything miraculously had power again. I guess the only other thing might be the ignition switch itself has gone bad or that the big yellow battery wire to the ignition switch is either loose or corroded. Will check tomorrow during daylight.