’93 945T, 160,000 miles

About a month ago my car just died in my driveway. Very low power, I couldn’t even shift it out of park to put it in neutral. The engine wasn’t turning over or anything, this was after the car had been running just fine.

I thought it was the battery so I took it out and had two different places test it (Wal-Mart and Autozone), both said the battery was fine. I went back, hooked it back up and it was still dead. I unhooked it, cleaned up the connections (there are something like five things hooking onto the positive terminal), tightened down the bolt really well and the car was fine again. Nothing wrong with it, strong battery power, everything was well.

About three weeks after that the same thing happened as I tried to start my car. It turned over once or twice then just completely died – no power. This was after weeks of running just fine. Luckily this was when I was parked on the street in front of my house. I tried cleaning the connections to the battery again and I tried tightening down the bolt, nothing happened. I wanted to get it to my driveway so I tried jumpstarting it – after a few minutes of being hooked up to my Accord it would turn over but oh so slowly – but I finally got it started. I pulled it into my driveway, turned it off, tried to restart it to see what it would do but it was dead (when I say “dead”, there was a very light beeping for the open door but everything else wasn’t working and it certainly wouldn’t try to turn over, no clicking when I turned the key, no nothing). Heck, I can’t get it out of park again. And I know that there’s a shift-lock override which I guess was made for these situations but that button doesn’t seem to do anything.

Any ideas? I want to take this car on a 180 mile trip this weekend.

Thanks!