I have a Sebring LXI which for those of you who know is similar to an eclipse and i am looking for any help i can get on this matter. Basically my headlights wont work when turned on inside the car, but if i ground the relay that controls them the passenger side low/hi beam will turn on and just the drivers side high beam (and no the drivers side low beam is not burnt out) but anyway that along with my radio works then shuts off then turns on then shuts off, same with the cigarette lighter, and the power seat works randomly. Also the interior lights seem to be temperamental. All in all i have been trying to diagnose this problem for about 2 weeks now and its really getting to be a pain.


The thing is this... i had the car at a bodyshop recently and the morons working on it allowed the positive battery terminal to touch the hood, it blew a few fuses all of which have been replaced, and i am assuming that is what is causing these problems. The bodyshop guys are being real idiots about it and refuse to do anything about it i don't have the time or the money to fight with them so I'd like to just get this fixed asap. I have looked over the wiring with test lights, voltmeters, and just about anything else you can guess. I took it to advance auto to test the battery and the alternator both of which are fine. The only thing i have not looked into is the ECU, i heard that it could possibly cause these problems, but id assume it just controls the engine. Can someone shed some light on this for me and offer me ANY help possible? it would be greatly appreciated.

Oh yeah, car starts and runs fine...

Sounds like your car may be haunted.

Goodnight sweetheart...yes its time to go...bum bum bum bum bum...good night sweetheart yes I am one little a$$hole......bum bum bum bum....

Yeah its starting to seem that way... ANY chance this is the ECU causing any of these problems?

OK well i opened up that pack of wires that runs from the fusebox under the hood to inside the car and found a few problems... apparently water got in there and corroded some wires pretty badly (i was in an accident back in the day that pinched that pack of wires and cut a few) so i cut out the bad stuff and tied them up and soldered them together.. that seems to have partly fixed my issues, im guessing there are more wires there that need fixed so im gonna keep looking at it tomorrow (had to go to work so i couldn't finish today)

but my question is this... after i fix all this crap what can i wrap that pack of wires with that will keep the water out?

I was just going to tell you to check the end of the wires where the fuses connect to the fuse box inside and out...

Only reason is they tend to get hot under load, and after a few years of vibrations and such...the tend to come loose or get screwy..

I had a few come undone under the dash ...

Check it out man....good luck, try wiggling the wires wile things are on to see if you can simulate.


Proud Owner of a few Check Engine Lights...I mean eclipses.

1997 Eclipse Gs Heavy mods
1998 Eclipse Rs Daily driver
1995 Talon ESI ( Doesn't run )
1997 Eclipse GS ( Doesn't run )

Theres some black plastic tubing you can wrap the wires in. All of my MSnS wires are wrapped in it.

That or you can go with some electrical tape. Multiple colors to choose from to jazz up your bay a bit.

Rebuild In Process

OK i got everything working now... all the problems were in that pack of wires going from the fusebox under the hood to inside the car... a bunch of those wires got soaking wet and corroded really badly...


but the one thing i couldnt figure out is my low beam on the drivers side. It would NOT work no matter what i did until i cut the black ground wire and grounded it to the car rather than where its supposed to ground. My question is, where does it normally ground?