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serg18 · 02-18-2005, 09:00 PM

I left my light the other night and killed my battery . I tryed using a nother battery but i put it backward i connected positive terminal to negative pole and negative terminal to positive pole. it started sizzling as if it aws frying i took it off and got another and tried cranking my car and nothing works at all no interoir lights no headlights no nothing. i thnk its a wire that needs replacing it can't be afuse because i checked all of them. i was wonder ng if it could be the alternator. if someone could help i deeply appreciate.

rated_w · 02-19-2005, 12:09 AM

dunno but it looks like it will cost more than a pretty penny to repair your vehicle.. might be a fuse if you are lucky.. sounds like it's more serioous than just that. check all your cables .. maybe they are fried somewhere and you can change that.. I don't really know.

halforc · 02-19-2005, 03:38 AM

um you dont connect terminals backwords to jump a car....where did oyu learn this? it makes no sense to do that. at all. check your fuses again and the ones under the hood if none are blown you can

many many times because you probably messed up something pretty bad. what year is it btw?

***Tercel GTS*** · 02-19-2005, 09:09 AM

There are LARGE fuses in the underhood fuse box to protect cars from people doing really stupid things, like not looking at how the battery is being connected. You have to partially disassemble the fusebox to replace them though.
Being dead honest, if you won't look at how the battery is turned I recommend you send it to a shop to have those fuses replaced.
By the way, since one terminal is larger than the other, you must have been determined to put it in backwards....

***REN69*** · 02-19-2005, 09:34 AM

oh boy.. dead fuses.. maybe even a dead ECU.. go to a shop and get some fuses replaced until you can start seing things working.

sometimes people shouldn't try to play backyard mechanic if they don't even have enough common sense to see a + and - on a battery's terminals.

CraigW · 02-19-2005, 09:45 AM

Fusible links or large current fuses under hood ? What year ?

ratboycom · 02-19-2005, 11:51 AM

you blew your 100 or 80amp head fuse it should be either on the positive terminal or in the big fuse box under the hood, unbolt the box from the fire wall turn it over (there should be a cover under it, take the cover off the fuse is held in by 2 10mm bolts take those off pull the old fuse out, bolt the new one down and your car will start
you dont know how many times i have seen this, if its stupid sales people at work (then they bring it for us to work on) or stupid kids at school (happened twice last 1/4, worst part of all is they were automotive students)

virtualkuz · 02-19-2005, 12:46 PM

I always thought anyone with some jumper cables could jump a car. I guess that isn't the case. Most cables even have a tag on them with instructions. I guess this is why there is roadside assistance. This could have been very bad. One of those batteries could have exploded spraying acid all over the place. Once, I accidentally dropped a rachet across the battery terminals on a mustang, that thing got too hot to touch by the time I found something to grab it with. Car batteries are not something to play around with if you don't know what you are doing.

burnt03 · 02-19-2005, 01:40 PM

Up here at Canadian Tire (and Walmart too?) they sell "Smart" jumper cables. You can hook it up either way and they'll work.

Of course it'd probably just be cheaper to get a regular set and remember how they go on

serg18 · 02-19-2005, 06:27 PM

my car is a 93 corolla i didn't mean to put the battery on backwards on purpose could tall chill with the joke i need a advice on how to fix my car quick.