Car has no juice!?

[DaveDSMer 10+ year member]

Ok this is basically what happened. Found out the battery that was in the car was half the size it was supposed to be. Basically, a battery for a Saturn or something. So a few days ago the battery died and I had to jump it.. ok. Drove it next day fine. Parked it last night and tried to start it this morning and nothing happened. Just like a dead battery. Went up to Autozone and get a Duralast Gold .. the correct size and installed it just now. Still nothing. Postive and negative are hooked up right. Car has 0 juice.. even the power locks wont work. What could be the problem? Fuse? Relay? Computer? I am not sure where to start.

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[bumpinne0n 10+ year member]

Ok this is basically what happened. Found out the battery that was in the car was half the size it was supposed to be. Basically, a battery for a Saturn or something. So a few days ago the battery died and I had to jump it.. ok. Drove it next day fine. Parked it last night and tried to start it this morning and nothing happened. Just like a dead battery. Went up to Autozone and get a Duralast Gold .. the correct size and installed it just now. Still nothing. Postive and negative are hooked up right. Car has 0 juice.. even the power locks wont work. What could be the problem? Fuse? Relay? Computer? I am not sure where to start.

I'd think the locks would still work even if the computer was bad.

Did you follow the positive and negative to make sure they're connected where they're supposed to be?

 

[smd4life 5,000+ posts]

sounds like a major problem...most likey not jsut a loose connection

 

[DZNUTTS 10+ year member]

Did you check the fuses under the hood?

 

[bumpinne0n 10+ year member]

Ok this is basically what happened. Found out the battery that was in the car was half the size it was supposed to be. Basically, a battery for a Saturn or something. So a few days ago the battery died and I had to jump it.. ok. Drove it next day fine. Parked it last night and tried to start it this morning and nothing happened. Just like a dead battery. Went up to Autozone and get a Duralast Gold .. the correct size and installed it just now. Still nothing. Postive and negative are hooked up right. Car has 0 juice.. even the power locks wont work. What could be the problem? Fuse? Relay? Computer? I am not sure where to start.

If you'll post up the year and what it is, I'll see if I can look it up on Mitchell on Demand tomorrow to see what it says about it.

 

[DaveDSMer 10+ year member]

I was at work and posted before I left. Anyways, I dont really WANT to tell you what it was as.. its totally stupid. Ok um.. you know that little black plastic cap over the negative terminal on new batteries.. well yeah.. i forgot to take it off... I looked at it when i got back .. and was like... omg!.. glad i didnt have anyone come look at it because i derserve a kick to the head for that.

 

[Lunchbocks 10+ year member]

Haha, doesn't sound like a mistake a DSMer would make

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

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[brendan_121212]

I was at work and posted before I left. Anyways, I dont really WANT to tell you what it was as.. its totally stupid. Ok um.. you know that little black plastic cap over the negative terminal on new batteries.. well yeah.. i forgot to take it off... I looked at it when i got back .. and was like... omg!.. glad i didnt have anyone come look at it because i derserve a kick to the head for that.

LOL, been there done that.

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

LOL glad u got it fixed //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[DZNUTTS 10+ year member]

oh chitt........lol.