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still have no idea... HELP!!!!!!!!!

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iboostdoyou

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Feb 16, 2004
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I was on vacation in Florida and my father drove my car around while I was gone. I come back and he tells me he turned the car off in a parking lot of some store, came out, and it wouldnt start. The car is at my house so I recharge the battery. After a bunch of random tests, it seems as though the alternator and battery are both dead. I replace both the battery and alternator and the car still doesnt start. I get in the car and all the lights on the dashboard come up fine, car beeps with door open etc. I step on the clutch to start the car, and the lights on the dash shut off and it seems as though no power is getting to the engine. The car will not as so much as get to the point of turning over. The second the key is turned or clutch touched the car shuts down. NO IDEA WTF IS WRONG WITH MY CAR!! and when i jump start the car and let it run for a few minutes it stalls when putting it out of reverse back into neutral. THE CAR WONT START OR DRIVE WHEN JUMPED. any possibilities??
 
I'll bet your ECU is dead.

Maybe the volt reg went out on the alternator since you said it was bad, then the battery kept charging which caused high voltage which killed your ECU.

My car battery wouldn't charge, so i troubleshot it and found the wiring bad from my alt to my batt. (turned out to be the 80 amp fuse) So to get my car around until i could find out the exact problem, like an idiot, i wired up the alternator to bypass the regulator and i went to start my car after about 2 days of sitting, and it wouldn't start at all.

I changed the ecu for a friend of mines and it fired right up.
 
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