fg0d

LOL, I went into the car to start up my car to install my BOV, so I get in the car, and try to crank it, than nothing. It's completely dead. WTF So I tried to see if the lights inside and outside were working in the first ignition switch. So I put it in the first ignition position, checked the lights, and nothing, no power all. It seems like the battery might be dead from last night. All I remember having a tough time shutting off the radio, so I pulled the face plate off, then shut off the lights, got out, enabled the alarm. Fan started running, and I left.

I'll try and jump it tommorow morning and see what happened.

fg0d

Well I tried to start the car up now, positive and negative from my dads car, to my TII's positive and negative on my battery. Anyway, first time I hooked it up, got the positive on my car, tried to put the negative and got sparks. Everything was set correctly. So we shut my dads car off, than hooked them up. Turned on my dads car, than I got full power to my car, fans on. I tried to crank, nothing except a bunch of sparks. I'm lost on whats happening.

Aaron Cake

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Make sure your connecting positive to positive and negative to ground. NEVER negative to negative. Small sparks are normal, but if you are covered in a shower of sparks, then something is wrong...

At any rate, the first thing to check is the main fuse and your main ground under the fuse box.

fg0d

So I don't hook up the negative to negative to jump start? WTF? It has to be to the ground? Thats weird.

The ground can be any solid metal piece on the engine right?

FattMarrell

ground on the car you're trying to jump, or the donating car?

adamlewis

+ from good car to + on bad car
- from good car to ground on bad car

fg0d

The ground on the TII can be any metal object on the engine right?

fg0d

Ok, I got my motorcycle battery charger, hooked it up pos to neg, neg to ground. Turned on the battery charger, first thing that kicked in was the fan, wtf!? the fan and its below 0 degrees outside? it seems like that may be the problem. It must of sucked the life of my battery in only a few hours. But the fans kicked, interior lights went on, the clock turned on. So I tried to crank, and all I got was a couple of clicks.. click click click click, and nothing. So I'm going to let this battery charger sit for a while until its fully juiced up.

What do you guys think is going on? The fan seems to be on when all the problems occur? Is it from the climate control inside?

fg0d

Bump, I need some quick responses.

fg0d

I figured out what happened..

I noticed I can pull the key out of the ignition when the car was on, so I remembered the fans were still on when I left the night before. I looked at the ignition, and when I have it in ACC the fans are on, but when I had it in lock the fans shut off. So I must have pulled the keys out in ACC thinking it was in lock, thus leaving the fan running.

HAILERS

There's a lack of communication here somewhere. The charger should be going: positive to positive AND negative to negative.

You must have made a typo in the posts above.

If you reverse the leads......that aux fan will come on. I traced that circuit out once and that is one result of doing so.

For clarificagtion, your words: ***hooked it up pos to neg,******

HAILERS

I rethought my answer above. Correction: The fan coming on when you turn the key just to ON is the result of a fuse being blown. Check your ENGINE fuse and the fuses in the engine compartment also to correct that phenonem.

fg0d

Correction, pos to pos, neg to ground.