Q: Fuse box

asked by on October 07, 2016

So my car wasn't starting and it ended up being the battery terminals so i changed them and now my car works fine but the stereo wont turn on. I checked the fuses and they weren't blown but when i checked them with a circuit tester the light wouldn't come on. I checked all the fuses with a tester and some had power and some didn't but none were blown. is there any way to restore power to those fuses or am i going to have to replace the fuse box?

My car has 140000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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