A bit baffled by this. The car has 98,000 miles on it, and haven't really
had any problems. This morning on the interstate at approximately 70 - 75
mph my ABS light came on, shortly after that my air bag light started
flashing, next the radio shut off, then the dash clock, auto climate
control, and finally the gauges all went dead .This all took place over
probably 3 - 5 minutes, and I had been driving on the interstate for
probably 15 minutes. The car was still running just fine, no loss of
power, hesitation or unusual sounds or smells. Several miles later I
started noticing drops in torque, not stuttering, just like I had
lightly/slowly applied the brakes. After this happened I pulled to the
shoulder, and as I was slowing down, all of the electrical started coming
back to life. By the time I was stopped everything was back on and fine. I
shook my head and took off again, while accelerating in 4th (probably only
to about 4K rpm) ready to shift to 5, I notice the clock start to dim and
then go out, along with climate control and stereo, then the gauges
started fluttering, and eventually fell dead, so I pulled to the shoulder
again, and the entire scenario repeated. When I got into the city,
everything was fine. All power, car was running fine, no strange noises I
could detect. Parked the car checked under the hood to see if anything
obvious was wrong. No smells, no sounds, everything seemed normal. I
revved the motor to around 4K for a couple of seconds but everything
remained normal with no load on the motor.
If anyone has had any similar experiences or can offer ideas of what might
be the problem, it would be greatly appreciated.