Pontiac Repair: 1995 pontiac bonneville 3.8, digital volt meter, pontiac bonneville

Question
new battery, voltage correct, alt. good, battery conn. clean and cables good, getting voltage to starter and alt. ground is also good. lights in car will turn on, radio will not, when i turn the key nothing happens, everything goes dead, starter does not even click. tried jumping, tried tapping startet solenoid, i checked all fuses under dash just for grins and giggles. need help. any advice?

Answer
hI brian:

do you have head lamps when you turn them on? If they will turn on and you try to crank the ca do the lmaps go out? if no lamps and everything is dead you have a ground or power issue. that car has 2 (+) cables stacked together possably a bad connection between the cables and the battery "corrosion" same thing with the ground cable there is just one but maybe a bad connection at the battery. do you have a digital volt meter? if so put the meter on DC volatge turn the head lamps one and measure the voltage across the ground cable from the battery to the body ground and the same thing with the positive cable the reading the the meter should not be more then .020 Volt if more you have a bad connection or a bad cable causing a high voltage drop. good luck :)