Ok, I tried to search but didn't find what I needed.

Went to take the car out from storage last week and hooked up the battery and nothing happened. I just figured the battery was dead. So I brought it home and put it on the charger. Today, I went to go try it again. Hooked the battery up, sparked a little, heard the headlight motor and something else power up. Went to get in and start it, nothing. As if the battery wasn't hooked up. No radio, no lights, nothing. I then tried to unhook the battery and rehook it up, then it didn't spark at all when making contact. I thought maybe the battery was bad so stopped by Advanced Auto on the way home to have them check it, tested fine. So now I am not sure what is wrong. Maybe a ground issue or fuse?

Any help is appreciated, I am still searching the forum and net but nothing I found so far helped. Unfortunately, the car is located 40minutes away so I can't just walk out to it and trial and error one-by-one.

Thanks

 

Next step is to pull your codes using the DIC and post them. Also, was the security light continuing to flash in the IPC?

 

How can I get the codes if the car won't get power? I turn it to acc and nothing turns on

 

How/Where did you store your car? Could critters have gotten into the wiring?


All I can say it to give her a good going over. She ran good last year?


More info needed for you and us to try to help!

 

That is something I am worried about. I stored it at my grandma's. There use to be mice but we had taken care of them a year or 2 ago. There were none in the fall when we stored it. We did take extra percautions and put moth *****, mice traps, mice poison, etc around. I didn't see signs of mice in the garage or anything though.

Going back Monday to check everything out, make sure everything is sound. I did have some electrical problems on and off last summer but I thought everything was taken care of (it was fine when I put it away). One problem I had that might be coming back is once when I shut the car off, the lights would stay out, I couldn't turn them off. I had to disconnect my battery. It ended up correcting itself. During that same time, for some reason I had the same issue I am having now. When the battery was connected, nothing turned out. I just disconnected the battery, hooked it back up and it was fine.

If I can't get it started, I plan to call AAA to have them either bring it back to my house or more likely our mechanic. I will print out the instructions to check the DTC so if it works Monday, I will still check the codes encase anything pops up.

Thanks for the replies, I will update Monday as to what happens. In the mean time, any more help is greatly appreciated!

 

Could also be that your battery charger isn't doing the job. Or the test was wrong. My guess is a new battery will still solve the problem. If you. It from Costco, they won't hassle you to return it if you're wrong.

 

I may still consider that. Battery is front 2010 though. It did charge pretty fast which was surprising. I figured that that is all it was but when the guy at Advanced said it was fine and the tester said 12.6 volts, I wasn't sure.

 

I will check to see what the receipt he gave me says.

I checked the connections, no corrosion. That was my first thought. I will check the start Monday.