I forgot to tell my story about relays. Before my big trip ( Parts 1,2,3 already posted) I was taking my niece out for a ride July 4th. We only rode about 10 miles, and when I returned to my house, I just throttled a little to get into the garage and the SE5 shuts down as if I hit the kill switch. I could not restart it.....
Besides the panic I had, ( I'm no mechanic) it was tommorrow that I was going to start this 14 day trip, it's a Saturday July 4th holiday, so everything is closed, etc.... You can see I was getting twisted up inside.
Well my bro-in-law and I started tearing off panels thinking its a loose wire. I opened the trunk and removed the fuse/relay cover and found one of the relays was a little loose, so I pulled it and plugged it back in, but no effect. Started pulling fuses... My wife was getting ready to blog on this site for immediate help.
Well I had bought two extra relays and decided to start replacing originals. I did not have a circuit tester, so I could not tell which ones were good or bad. So my bro-in law decided that if I would leave the key on, and we would plug each one of the relays in with power to the board that we would hear each one click if it was good. ( All three clicked when we plugged them in)
BUT FOR SOME REASON, AFTER ALL THREE OF THE ORIGINAL WERE TESTED THE ABOVE WAY, I DECIDED TO HIT THE START BUTTON. And guess what it started right up.
Have had no problems since. But what a scare!!!!! We've driven the 3300 miles on the trip, and never a wink, however I did check those relay connections a few time, after some pretty rough roads we travelled.
Question: why did the relay re-plugged after I found it loose not solve the problem, but when we re-plugged with power on and it clicked it started right up?