My son drives this car and he changed out his first battery. When he bought the battery he didn?t notice that the positive post was on the opposite side as the battery that was in there before that. You can see where this is going. He continued to hook it up with the posts backwards and after having what he thought to be the negative side connected, he touched the postive connector to the negative post for a breif second until the power distribuition box started smoking. I?m not sure what exactly this incident did or normally does. We got the right battery hooked in there and the car starts, but many interior electronics don?t work. Also, the car sounds horrible. It seems to be running at a much higher idol speed and the overall pitch is higher. I put it into gear but was afraid to drive it out of the driveway because the response was just not there. It feels like a completely different car. So that is my issue and I was wondering what anyone thought. I would like to fix this problem on my own instead of paying the big bucks, but I?m not positive if simply changing the blown fuses will fix the problem. Thanks for any suggestions.
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19 years ago