my R33 is dead

[walkoau]

some one please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ive got no power at all......

no ignition lights.

no head lights.

no interior

central locking not even working. ect ect.

the starter motor isnt even clicking.

it seems like a totally flat battery, but i tried jump starting it and still got nothing. checked the conections. checked all the fuses in the boot, in the cabin, and also in the engine bay but all fuses are ok including the main fuse in the boot.

anyone got any ideas????????

[walkoau]

some one out there must have a clue?

[foshan]

I would say that it is the battery for sure. It happened in my old car and i just got a completely new battery and it worked fine after that.

If the battery isnt working thats what u will probably have to do.

Hope that helps.

Let me know how it goes

Cheers

Luke

[walkoau]

i tired another battery but didnt work!

the battery i tried is a month old out of my other car.

[hungry6]

u might have 2 dud battery dude

[B-Man]

Vary hard to jump start if your battery is fully r00ted. Get a brand new battery. Check all the fuses, esp main fuse (I think there is one there somewhere)

[gloof]

it could be your immobiliser that's if you have one.

[walkoau]

The other battery i tried is excellent i use it in my other car no probs. ive checked all the fuses including the main fuse.

Gloof i do have an immobiliser, if this is at fault could this stop power to everything though?

[mxfly]

I'd say it's the immobiliser for sure. I had a problem with my good ol EXA. Was waiting at a set of lights and she just died. Nothing. NRMA came and found it was the immobiliser. Check your connections. See how you go

[DAMQIK GTS-T]

follow the battery wires (+ & -) from the battery to there ends and make sure there not lose and that the conections are clean maybe even remove and clean anyway for good measure.

[one8tsx]

Could be the immobiliser, but they usually don't cut out the headlights or interior lights. Check the fusible links if skylines have them.

[dAVE]

follow the battery wires... use a multimeter.. a battery should read 13.5 volts i think ... so just keep going till the power drops.. that should give u a rough idea of where your problem is.

[hippy]

yep i'd follow the wires .. there must be an open circuit there somewhere ..

[gloof]

walkoau, it happened to my r33. The only thing that worked was my clock. so i took it to my mechanic and found out that one of the wires off the immobiliser was disconnected.

[walkoau]

i found the problem..............

i must have left the interior light on, the night before it died which ment the battery was totally dead. then in the morning i had nothing tried to jump start it after checking all the fuses and it wouldn't even jump start so i continued asuming the problem was in the car...........

later with the multimeter in my hands i desided to check the jumper leads i was using for continuity. and to my surprise it turns out they where stuffed for some reason they whern't carrying the current??????? they where brand new antizap leads???????

so i tried a different older pair of jumper leads and it started...

end of drama....

[walkoau]

its always something so simple........

[Secoh]

cheap jumper leads are worth their weight in packing foam. the el cheapo chinese ones have the cable crimped onto the ends through the insulation and generaly are open circuit. either buy decent leads or cut the clamps off, bare back the jumper cables and solder them onto the clamps.

usually even if they do make contact the actual wire is so small theyb wont pass enough current to start a car without glowing red hot and melting all the insulation off them

[B-Man]

Glad to hear you got it sorted !

[Al]

You could have saved yourself a lot of heart ache by REPLACING your battery with your other one.

[walkoau]

Al

i know i should have just replaced it (now)

but i thought i had a serious prob. any way my mistake.

secoh

the jumperleads i was using where (looked) like very good quality. they are the anti zap ones 400amp from a good spare parts dealer. must have just been a dud set.