As topic says, car was hit by lightning, now nothing works.
what should i do?

 

check fuses, and relays it should still work any other damage on the car? wherre you driving when it happend?

 

check fuses

that really sucks though...what happens when a car gets hit by lightning? does it get a burn mark or something?

 

all fuses good, pulled a ecu from the junk yard, fired right up.

Last night driving home, it was pouring. It hit the corner of the roof near the back, gave me 50 strokes and 3 heartattacks

 

Did it leave a burn mark? Is it just the electronics that don't work? Pics?

 

Glad that your okay bro. lightning is nothing to mess with lol. pics if there are any marks.

 

pics
how long did it take u to notice what happened?

 

after the boom and the car coasted to a stop.
no marks really just like soot marks that wiped off

 

now go play the lottery....

because you have more chances of winning the lottery then lightning hitting a moving car.

 

lol @ dave^^ ...but yeah.. i know someone that had a company truck parked in their driveway and a tree about 10 feet away got struck,.. and there was a mark on the ground that led all the way to the tire of the car closest to the tree....long story short,..nothing worked.. they couldnt figure out what was wrong and neither could the dealer ..

 

check your main fuse first right off the positive terminal of battery first

 

Lol @ IB............


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Anyways, yeah, dayum, that's CRAZY! I can't beleive that, only the 2nd time I've heard of a nissan ecu going bad. Give it a week, I'm curious if you're going to have other problems stemming from that.

 

I lost the maf today and 2 injectors.......

 

Technically nothing should have really happened. IIRC from physics class, cars work as Faraday Cages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage). I remember as a kid driving on the highway with my parents, and a lightning struck right in front of us. It felt like it lifted the entire front end of the car up (86 Mercedes S500, WAY HEAVY car lol) but everything was fine.

 

Should have acted like a cage, maybe it just jumped through something, i dunno, i see planes get hit and they dont fall outa the sky.

 

Now a video like this on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ0_Lwa4H2g
and he keeps going what gives?

but this one is worse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSKlnQDURjo

 

KRRZ,

Who's that in your avatar? She is HOT! Sorry, had to ask.

 

hmmm... I guess we shouldn't buy cars made out of plastic haha.

 

oooor this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6XGKZxYxA

 

from that video

 

That sucks. Hopefully that is all, I was actually more suspected and worried about wiring getting damaged, causing little problems that were near impossible to track down and causing you to buff off the lightning strike marks and trade the thing in. Here's hoping.

 

Drove to work and back today, No issues.

 

Thats crazy bro!!
The lightning thought it could take on the VQ Power and come out on top?.......foolish lightning!

 

nah, it just took a dent out of my wallet.

 

Ive played the lottery all week, i dident win a thing. but you get first dids on a upgrade if i do.

 

If lightning struck and then your car died. Does it start?

What do you meen by nothing works, I would think if the car got hit by lightning it would fry all the electronics in the car.. The car would then be totalled.

 

It just fried my ecu 2 injectors and a maf..... some bulbs also but everything so far seems fine , thank god it did not fry the bcm or set off the airbags, i have no check engine light and she seems like nothing happened, if something did , iam sure it will pop up and give me a headache till i figure it out, after the hit i was dead on the road, had to push it to the side and get her towed home.