brand new battery is in my car, yet it wont show lights at all or crank.
I mistakenly messed up the polarity and the horn went of like crazy, but after switching it correctly
the battery doesnt even act like its connected. Any suggestions, comments?

10/26/2005 2:39:16 PM

what kind of accord

[Edited on October 26, 2005 at 3:00 PM. Reason : .]

10/26/2005 2:59:49 PM

2000 ex, anyone have any suggestions????

10/26/2005 3:02:55 PM

so you connected the battery backwards? is that what you are saying?

i would say check your fuses (in the car and under the hood) first. owners manual should show the locations.

10/26/2005 3:15:00 PM

clean the terminals

10/26/2005 3:30:49 PM

You've fried a couple of the fusible links.

I'm not exactly sure where they are on your car, but there are usually two or three strip-style fusible links in a small black box under the hood, usually near the battery.

10/26/2005 3:59:42 PM

yea chances are that if you reversed the polarity and did it for a long time, you blew some fuses.

10/26/2005 4:01:11 PM

In this case, long time = about 0.5 second.

[Edited on October 26, 2005 at 5:29 PM. Reason : get my shit straight.]

10/26/2005 5:29:07 PM

go tap all your relays

happened to my 91 accord -- a relay came loose...it was weird

[Edited on October 26, 2005 at 5:48 PM. Reason : -]

10/26/2005 5:46:42 PM

this car has maxi-fuses, located in the underhood fuse center. you most likely blew the 80-100 A main fuse, these can usually be found at your local auto parts store.

10/26/2005 7:50:08 PM

? since we're talking about batteries.
When jumping a car, I was always told that the car with bad
battery should be hooked up with the negative cable on the frame of the car
instead of on the negative post. I wanted to be able to explain why, but I
can't remember.

10/27/2005 10:03:18 AM

so you get a good ground for the dead car

and you dont blow anything up

10/27/2005 10:06:03 AM

definately check all your fuses and dont do it again

10/30/2005 9:55:53 PM

Battery's release hydrogen gas. When you connect the last jumper wire an ark will be emitted. Could go Ka-Boom

10/30/2005 11:14:26 PM

^bullshit

maybe youll get a spark. a kaboom will require shit loads of H2 gas which most batteries would not leak.

[Edited on October 31, 2005 at 4:49 PM. Reason : -]

10/31/2005 4:49:25 PM

^I take it you hain't ever blowed up a battery.

10/31/2005 6:42:38 PM

Quote :

"so you get a good ground for the dead car"

actually you will get the best connection going right to the battery
you just have the greater risk of explosion

[Edited on October 31, 2005 at 6:59 PM. Reason : V ive heard like 5k-10k people a year have eye injuries from batteries]

10/31/2005 6:54:43 PM

^^^unlikely but still possible and has happened to people before.

I hain't blown up no batrey before

[Edited on October 31, 2005 at 6:56 PM. Reason : ^]

10/31/2005 6:55:56 PM

^

i admit im not the expert here

but is someone in this thread telling me they have SEEN it happen?

[Edited on November 1, 2005 at 4:14 AM. Reason : =]

11/1/2005 4:13:55 AM

i have

11/1/2005 7:29:27 AM

yes i have seen batteries explode, both in vehicles that were being repaired and during normal serivce.

11/1/2005 7:58:37 AM

Yep. blowed one up in a Caprice Estate wagon before...

11/1/2005 10:43:20 AM

i had a battery swell up on me a few weeks ago, but didnt blow up

11/1/2005 12:59:34 PM

usualy a serious internal or external short will build up enough heat to make it explode, i blew up a tractor battery before, trying to jump start it with a welder, long story, but dad in all his wisdom convinced me it would work

11/1/2005 1:05:34 PM