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RS_Matt 25 September 2015 08:02 PM

Fitted battery wrong way round
 
I've just fitted a Odyssey PC680 battery with brass terminals to my 2003 WRX and realised after the car wouldn't start that the terminals are the opposite way around to the battery I took off!

:facepalm2:

The Slow Blow main fuse is blown but is there a chance something else might be knacked?

alcazar 25 September 2015 08:35 PM

Alternator, I'd say almost certainly.

Could be one or two fuses in the fusebox inside too.

JDM_Stig 25 September 2015 08:36 PM

https://www.scoobynet.com/scoobynet-...ay-around.html

RS_Matt 25 September 2015 09:02 PM


Originally Posted by JDM_Stig (Post 11741663)

Luckily no visible smoke or electrical smells!

:?

Will a 95 legacy have the same fail safes?

bustaMOVEs 25 September 2015 10:08 PM

Didn't that sh1t spark like feck for you to realise you numpty.

RS_Matt 26 September 2015 08:57 AM


Originally Posted by bustaMOVEs (Post 11741712)
Didn't that sh1t spark like feck for you to realise you numpty.

Nope.

No sparks, bangs, smoke or smells.

gussy 26 September 2015 11:58 AM


Originally Posted by RS_Matt (Post 11741640)
I've just fitted a Odyssey PC680 battery with brass terminals to my 2003 WRX and realised after the car wouldn't start that the terminals are the opposite way around to the battery I took off!

:facepalm2:

The Slow Blow main fuse is blown but is there a chance something else might be knacked?

Matt the easiest way to find that out is to replace the blown main fuse and chuck another battery on or your old one that you replaced the odessy with, there will no dought be a bit of power in it, try your electrics if there ok then try and turn the car over .

RS_Matt 27 September 2015 11:02 AM


Originally Posted by gussy (Post 11741794)
Matt the easiest way to find that out is to replace the blown main fuse and chuck another battery on or your old one that you replaced the odessy with, there will no dought be a bit of power in it, try your electrics if there ok then try and turn the car over .

Got a fuse ordered from europarts, they aren't easy to find.

RS_Matt 28 September 2015 12:08 PM

Fcuking Europarts told me they'd have one in by Monday morning, but noooo!

Anyway after trying 10 car part companies and the Subaru dealership I ended up at my local scrap yard who only had one Jap car there, luckily the fcuker had an 80 amp screw down slow blow PAL fuse!!!

Anyway I've fitted the fuse and the damage is.....

....Radio doesn't work

I didn't just fit the battery the wrong way around I also tried to jump start the car whilst it was still on the wrong way around!! Very lucky!


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