Q: Vehicle is dead - no electrical
We bought an 07 Buick Rendevzous when we got it the drivers side read break/parking light bulb was missing. So my husband went to autozone and bought the bulb for that yr/make/model and put it in. After he put it in turned on the parking lights went back to look and it was blinking and there was a ticking noise and then the dash was doing the same and then everything went dead. He tried to jump it from our truck nothing so he put it on a charger nothing. It is dead, dead, dead. What could possibly cause that and how do we fix it?
My car has 143000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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