1G No power in acc position or while car off

[enriquez2000]

All of a sudden my car has no power when off(no dome lights and tadio doesnt store settings) and when in acc same thing. I start the car and everything works.

Im sure there has to be a fuse but which one could it be? Im on my way to work so cant dig around too much this morning and hoping for an easy answer

 

[tmoney20g]

looks like that'd be fuse 19, 10 amp

comes direct from battery for a bunch of lights, some radio, and oddly part of the mpi control unit

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[enriquez2000]

Would the fusible link going bad cause this? Car died 4 blocks away like alternator crapped out.. alternator is only a but over a week old... and no power steering leaks.

 

[tmoney20g]

Did you kill the battery ? Maybe you blew the 80amp alt fusible link in the engine bay when you swapped out alts

 

[enriquez2000]

Did you kill the battery ? Maybe you blew the 80amp alt fusible link in the engine bay when you swapped out alts

Well car started but then died while driving. I restarted it and got home. Alternator doesnt appear to charge.. battery was holding at 11.8v. Odd that no acc. Power but would start. Fuse 19 is good still.

I wonder if the fuseable link has domething to do with acc power. On my way to grab one now. Not sure what else it could be at this point.

 

[enriquez2000]

And the winner is



Fuseable link.... as soon as it went in all dome lights and buzzers worked and car is charging at 14 volts again

Thanks for the help

 

[1990TSIAWDTALON]

What do you think made the fuseable link go bad? Any idea?

 

[enriquez2000]

What do you think made the fuseable link go bad? Any idea?

23yr old car and recent alternator change.. i probably arced it somewhere along the way

 

[1990TSIAWDTALON]

That's real easy to do, even though we all know to disconnect the battery it still slips by and even I am guilty of it. It didn't kill your big 80 amp fuse though and mine did so I see how it happened. Very glad that's all it was and your back to driving not working on it!!!