# Car COMPLETELY dead?!?!?!! HELP **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [September 6, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-completely-dead-help/2073 "2005-09-06T00:40:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 2:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-completely-dead-help/2073/4 "2005-09-06T02:49:52Z")
Honestly based on what you are describing **DO NOT** attach any battery to the car for your own safety. It could be the battery but usually if a problem occurs there, only one or two cells would go at once causing a drop of around 1.5-2v at a time. It could be possible that the charging system fried it if there is a problem. But I’d find it hard to believe that it completed shorted all the cells in the battery. Considering the car was running ok a few hours ago. However, based on the fact it started boiling just when trying to charge it seems to indicate a possible short. So DO NOT connect a battery until you test for that first. Last thing I want to hear is a story about an exploding battery and a missing face. Attach an ohmmeter = without any battery in the car from the positive and negative terminal. It should be next to infinite with the key off, if it isn’t or it’s near 0 then you have a short somewhere. Look at that first. Most likely though your battery is now toast. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-completely-dead-help/2073)._