NEW BATTERY, NO POWER NOW TO ANYTHING!

[infinitinut2]

Greetings to all, and, yes, a long time since here! Out of the country doing "fun" things, following orders!

Anyway, returned to where the M30 and Q45 had been stored in my climate controlled garage, both on a trickle charger. M started immediately and was taken post haste to be serviced. Q would not start, even though Interestate Magna battery was less than a year old! Would not take a charge, and service guy said battery shot, and replaced it with new Interstate at no charge. Installed battery, and car started immediately and settled down to smooth idle. BUT.....I am getting no power to anything! ANYTHING! Seems as if a breaker switch has been thrown some where! Tried the "SEARCH" feature here, but no luck on my issue. My workshgop/service manual is somewhere, but I must do a search mission for it! Thought I would ask the Q gurus here before I tried anything else!

While M was being serviced, it caught the eye of another Infiniti type who asked the manager if it was for sale! He was told that I would be facing divorce and alimony if I sold HER car!

My Q (pearl over tan) is the one Dennis (aka Q45 tech) found to be "one of the best examples of an early Q" when I took it over to T-3 for guides, etc, back in 2000! It still is one fine auto!

In advance, thanks for your help!

[jcentinc]

If you have a voltmeter ( digital prefered) Set the meter to DC volts scale 25 volts or higher. Take the leads and test the battery. You should read 12 volts sometimes a little more. If it is below 10 volts you nneed to charge or replace the battery.

Another suggestion... check to make sure there wasn't an insulator on one of the terminal posts ( usually the positive ).

[r0llinlacs]

happened to me when i jump started my altima and had the wires backwards.

it blew the main fuse that gives power to everything.it started and ran, but nothing electrical would work. no lights, no guages, etc.anyways its a fuse under the hood. check around for it and you should find it.

[rsagen]

in the fuse box under your hood theres a fuse called 'alt' its a 75 amp fuse. replace it and your golden. (it happened to me too when boosting)

[Chainsmokerjoe14]

Well, Even though this post is over a year old, in case someone else has the same prob, the first thing I would have checked was voltage, then next make sure you have enough running amps to power more then just the car. I've seen alot of friends get too small of batteries because they are cheaper and then no electrical works. Personally I always use a deep cycle battery even when I don't have a system, espicially if a car is going to sit for a long period of time some shirikans and kinetic battery half-life for sitting is like 5 years. But I use a small shirikan battery on my car it's about 10x3x10 and it runs my car with enough power too spare to run a 4 channel amp in my car no problem. But even my dad trying too save money made the mistake I mentioned, an I did a deep cycle battery and now he has no problems, and a small shirikan, well the smallest is abt 100 bux, and it will run most cars, didn't run my z31 I had to get next size up. But it also has alot more STf too run. Still 130bux isn't bad for a battery you will mostlikely never replace. Hope it helps someone! Good luck.