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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.

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.

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.

Thanks Zimm,
I will give that a try.

This was a grounding issue and is now fixes.

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

pakong wrote: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.

You can never have to many grounds.

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