# Frontier won’t start

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/frontier-won-t-start/148026>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** nissan\
**Created:** [September 3, 2019, 3:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frontier-won-t-start/148026 "2019-09-03T03:37:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rossmancolt\_156988](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5e9695/32.png) [@rossmancolt\_156988](https://community.cartalk.com/u/rossmancolt_156988)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 3:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frontier-won-t-start/148026/1 "2019-09-03T03:37:53Z")

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I have new battery. Alternator and starter checked out ok. Can’t see anything draining my battery. I try to start my truck it is completely dead? Nothing. Can jump it fine. But would like to find out why? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Cougar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cougar/32/21348_2.png) [@Cougar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Cougar)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 11:12am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frontier-won-t-start/148026/2 "2019-09-03T11:12:44Z")

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The first thing to do is clean the battery cable terminals. Use a wire brush to clean them with, especially the contact surfaces to the battery posts. If the engine starts with a jump start then the trouble is with the terminal connection to the battery.

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**Author:** ![rossmancolt\_156988](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5e9695/32.png) [@rossmancolt\_156988](https://community.cartalk.com/u/rossmancolt_156988)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frontier-won-t-start/148026/3 "2019-09-03T23:51:59Z")

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Hmmm… Things look pretty clean because just got new battery 1 month ago. Could it be a fuse or ground wire?  
Thanks.

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**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/frontier-won-t-start/148026/4 "2019-09-04T00:14:06Z")

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> [@rossmancolt\_156988](#):
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> Hmmm… Things look pretty clean because just got new battery 1 month ago. Could it be a fuse or ground wire?  
> Thanks.

You can’t tell by looking when the terminals are hooked up. They need to be removed and cleaned, both the cable ends and the battery posts.

Definitely not a fuse because you wouldn’t be bypassing any fuses by jump starting. But a bad ground cable is a possibility if you are connecting the negative jumper cable directly to the Frontier’s engine rather than to the negative battery terminal.