2010 Pontiac Vibe Base 1.8 no power, no start

[pakong]

Anyone have any ideas before I take this into the shop? I have no power whatsoever and it won't jump start either. Fresh battery and new alternator. not even the door lights will come on.

[jolt]

Battery terminals hooked up wrong? Bad cables and/or bad ground? Bad connections? Blown fuses? Blown fuses are the result of a problem and are not the problem to begin with, so if you have blown fuses, you need to find why the fuses blew.

[Zimm]

test for a bad main ground cable between the negative terminal of the battery and the frame. to do this, put a jumper cable on the negative terminal of the battery. put the other end on the engine block. if it starts up, you have a bad main ground cable. fwiw, i have a 2010 with a 1.8 and mine went bad. was reattached once, then replaced the 2nd time. no issues since.

[pakong]

Thanks Zimm,
I will give that a try.

[pakong]

This was a grounding issue and is now fixes.

[jake75]

Just when you fear the worst - a relatively simple grounding issue. Whew!!

[tpollauf]

This was a grounding issue and is now fixes.

Thus the old saying when I was in Diesel Technology college some 35 years ago " 90% of all electrical problems are due to faulty grounds"

I still remember this and apply it always when troubleshooting electrical work.

[jolt]

You can never have to many grounds.

[pakong]

I'm switching the grounds to Zero gauge. One is already done. I'll do te other 2 on the weekend.