Q: I was checking the fuses under the hood and now the car has all the lights on the dash and dies going in reverse.

asked by on December 27, 2017

I was checking the fuses under the hood and now the car has all the lights on the dash and dies going in reverse. I pulled out some of the fuses to check them because the radio all of a sudden stop working.

My car has 115 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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