Changed the battery in my 2017 Tacoma. Everything went wrong.

Not cheap, but could have been a lot worse.

 

You did good OP, a couple those fuses are a PITA labor intensive to replace. Best of all you’re back on the road again and that’s WiN!

Cheers!

 

OP glad it wasnt that bad. I would have easily made that mistake. Its the small and easy things you just do and not think about anymore that gets you

 

What was 400 bucks?

 

damn. Glad you’re all set now. This thread will never die though.

Legend

 

4hrs of labor was 400$

 

The batteries in the Taco suck. The first one conked out on me within a year of purchase of the truck. The second is causing corrosion all over the battery tray. Before long, I'm just going to bit the bullet and put a decent battery in it.

 

Panasonic battery is what my Toyota mechanic recommends. Dealers have them too.

 

Yikes! Like everyone said, could be worse. Just be glad it was only $600 and not thousands in electronic replacements, expensive lesson learned, but you wont EVER do that again! I never would have thought twice about it but after seeing this thread, I too will be more careful when replacing my battery.

 

Weight off your mind I’m sure, happy for you that it wasn’t in the multi thousands!
Carry on.

 

Looks like the fuses did their job. Good news op

 

When I had my tC, it had a Panasonic battery. Forgot I left the lights on when I left for training. Came back and found vehicle dead, charged it up while working. Battery was good until I traded her in 4 year later. Panasonic gtg, at least in my experience.

 

had the Panasonic in my wifes Lexus and it died at exactly 49 months, 1 month after the factory warranty was up. I took my warranty replacement 24F out of my Tacoma, which was about a month old at the time, and put it in her Lexus (luckily it was the same size) and I bought me a 27F AGM for the Taco.

 

Mint man.
Good for you.

You lucked out big time..

Try to start saving it back up again lol

 

One important note to make here is there are different types of diodes and .7 bias voltage is in reference to silicon p-n junction semiconductor diode, there are all kinds of cool and interesting applications for diodes like transistors, ac/dc converters,etc.

 

Northstar group buy going on right now sir.

 

Hmm my 17 still has original..

 

Nearly cheaper than that tool who paid $600 for front brake pads and turned rotors in LA.

Glad they got you fixed up.

 

I saw this thread and the very same night I jumped my buddies truck with my noco. Did the same exact thing . Hooked it up backwards. Horn going off and everything haha. No damage was done though.

 

The jump box I have has polarity protection, supposedly it wont do anything unless its hooked up correctly.