My dad parked my car on FRIDAY...and he left my Amp turned on (it´s how i have it wired)
When i got back to my car on MONDAY....if of course wouldn´t start...BAH!!!
Tried jumping it...Nothing at all (not even a "click"
Fuses are all good...so far...need to check the engine bay ones next....
Headlights and high beams are the only things that have full power though.
Nothing else works...no interior lighting at all...not even little lights in the guage cluster...they faded to nothing really fast....but the high beam symbol is a bright as ever.....WTF!!!
Anybody have a faintest direction on where i should head on my search?.....i´ll keep working on it
Hook it up to a charger skuce and see how many amps the charger is pushing to the battery, the less amps the more of a chrage yer battery has, if the amperage is around 10, leave the charger on over night and try starting in the morning, if it still DOESN´T START......look at your starter.
I know you said you checked the fuses but did you make sure to check the ones in the engine bay? Also, mine has a breaker-type fuse in the drivers side box as well if you have one check it. Besides that Starter or maybe you just melted something. Sorry don´t know much about your engine
Glad to see that you are still alive man....though you dropped off the face of the Earth there!
Well...i found and fixed the problem
The headlights are on a separate circuit than the rest of the vehicles functions.
What happened was..
My Battery died from being drained all weekend.
So when I tried to jump it (i was inside at the igniton and my dad was connecting the jumpers)
It must have arced and made a surge that fried the 100A main fuse.
So the fuse blew after i had already checked it the first time.
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I just by-passed that fuse to see what would happen...and Tada!!!! ....it started!!
So now i got a new 100A in there and everything is back to normal!
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