[DRW1000]

Add me to the list. My wife has a 99 that does the same thing on occasion. She turns the key and all of a sudeen the battery acts dead. One time she was at a mall and she called me I came over and decided she needed a boost. I put the positive cable on the relay box + and the negative on a part of the engine/chassis and it started right away. I don't really believ the battery was dead. That was about a month ago. Today she tried to start it and it just acted like id did not have the energy to crank the engine. I opened the hood and was going to boost it when it started to crank a bit more (she was still in the car). The battery obviously had energy but it would only crank on occasion. Finally it started without a boost.

In reading the thread and considering what happened a month ago I am thinking that there may be a ground problem. When I boosted it all I really did was take the ground cable fromn the battery to the block out of the equation and the problem went away.

Has anyone any new information??