OkanaganIroc

For about a year now I've had an electrical gremlin poping up from time to time. After a rain or if the car was drivenduring rain or miost cool weather The stereo would 'zero' itself (clock and cd player reset) It was puzzling but not a major issue to me at the time until my Wife took the car on a short road trip in the rain and calls me that the lights don't work. I drive out and sure enough, all exteror and interior lights aren't working as well as the stereoisn't working either. However thirty minutes after i arrive everything starts working again. This happened twice before we put the car into storage for last winter. During that time a shop who supposedly had a good reputation for electical fixes stored the car with the promise to find the problem while they had it. They never did because unfortunetly the gremlin never appeared during the time they had it.
Anyway i took the car out of storage this spring and i had no problems with it until the past weekend. on both Sunday and Monday evenings the we lost the lights again and then on thrursday afternoon I was driving it and the stereo went out as well as the interior lights. I made a beeline for the GM dealership but wouldn't you know it, the stupid thing 'fixed' itself 3 minuted before I got there.
Well I figured it wouldfn't hurt to talk to the GM maintenance manager while I'm there and he takes a quick look at my engine compartment and instantly tells me my problem....
It's the 11 year-old security system.
Aparently the alarm is going bad and everthing thats tied into it is shuting off at random.
The interior lights because the door switches are the alarm triggers
The headlights because the lights flash when you turn the alarm on and off
the stereo because it's tied into the interior lights circut (I think)

Anyway I replaced the alarm and no problems yet and a hope that fixes the gremlin.

Aparently the older alarms have a service life of about 7-8 years before the rock-hard suspension on a sports car does them in.