[Replaced battery - 2006 Spec B now totally dead]

yes, otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned it. i've seen this happen to cars that "sit or have been jumped"....so while I wasn't there and I can't pop the hood to look, it's sounding like the obvious starting point to me.

 

this is going to turn out to be something straight forward...like cables, battery, or fuse.

120 A Fuse is blown.  Hopefully, that will cover it.

[Replaced battery - 2006 Spec B now totally dead]

Gotta go with the dead battery theory. Do you have a voltmeter or even a test light you can put across the terminals to see if the new battery has a charge?

Um. Yeah. 12.5 - like any new battery. Really, not to disparage any of you but, were it something straight forward, I'd have figured it out. May be a bad cable. though the cable was fine an hour earlier - but, perhaps manipulating it in the 23F cold caused something to come undone.  

 

I guess that a more interesting diagnostic question is whether, if one of those 50 or 100 amp fuses go, does is cut all power to the car?

[Replaced battery - 2006 Spec B now totally dead]

I came home after a 10 day trip to a dead 2006 Spec. B.  I suspect that I inadvertently opened the trunk with the key fob as I jammed it into a bag.

 

A friend came to help me jump it and there was no way. Just too dead, though the parking lights turned on and the horn sounded constantly (I expect because I opened her up with the key).

 

So, I put in a new battery and the car is totally dead. No interior lights. No ring around the keyhole light. Nothing.  I tried the fob. Nothing.  Ideas?