It just stopped vs wagon

[Yogi1989]

Today I was driving my vs v6 ecotec heading towards a merging lane. I put my foot down a little bit and then the car died. No lights no nothing. No response from turning the key on and off. I have just replaced the starter motor a week ago. I found their were massive arcs when I replaced the battery and still nothing any advice would be appreciated. Yogi

 

[The1]

So no dash lights or anything? checked fuses?

 

[Yogi1989]

So no dash lights or anything? checked fuses?

Checked all that and all fine. Could it be a bad earth on the engin bay?

 

[mickVS84]

Mate if you got no dash lights etc. then its got to do with battery and terminals. Sometimes the clamps that connect to your terminals are slightly loose you will not get power anywhere. I would check that first before anything

 

[-=ApheX=-]

Mate I would also check your alternator insulator and make sure it's still in good condition, if not there could be issues as you've described.
Good Luck

 

[rambunctious]

Today I was driving my vs v6 ecotec heading towards a merging lane. I put my foot down a little bit and then the car died. No lights no nothing. No response from turning the key on and off. I have just replaced the starter motor a week ago. I found their were massive arcs when I replaced the battery and still nothing any advice would be appreciated. Yogi

Massive arcs at the battery indicates sumtingweallywong.
Maybe you have not installed starter wiring correctly, or, the starter is faulty and/or maybe earthing out.
Don't kid yourself new starters don't come faulty.

 

[VK SL 3800]

Check the main 60amp fuse under the bonnet next the main fuse box.

If its blown then something has probably faulted to do so, they dont blow for no reason commonly.

 

[sk2304]

Second what VK SL 3800 has said. I had main fuse blow on my old VS. Lost everything - lights, power, steering. Did not even have hazards. Auto electrician found a loose connection that had vibrated off over the years. Cannot remember which connection though.

 

[Redandy3575]

I had the same issue. Turned out that the positive cable running off the battery to where it is solder joined with the alternator positive lead had corroded to the point that it was creating too much resistance. So after driving a while the cable heated up to the point where the resistance became too much and cut all power to the car at random. You then pulled over and waited sometimes up to 5 minutes, or as little as 20 seconds til the cable cooled off again, and on came the power. Took ages to figure out what the problem was, even the RACV guy suspected something along these cables, but wasn't 100% sure himself. The auto electrician eventually figured it out to my amazement, he replaced the cable with a more heavy duty one, professionally re-resoldered and haven't had a problem since. But was a challenge to work out if you didn't know what the cause is.
So another one to tick off on the list of faults to which hopefully will save many commodore owners out there more headaches.