Mine is a 2007. The only thing that I can think of as to how it blew is when I went to jump start the car and hooked up the jumper cables wrong. It blew a couple of other fuses also but no major problems thank goodness.

 

I never heard of blowing more than the EPS fuse. Which wrong way?

 

I think that is the EPS is the only one after all. I hooked up the positive correctly but I had hooked up the negative to the other connection at the fusible block. I know that I got very lucky that it didn't fry anything else.

 

So is that when the fusible link between the starter and alternator blew?

 

I think autocorrect meant "fuse box". Not "fusible block". Like most folks that don't read the Owner Manual, or look at the labels under the hood.
I still can't figure how the fusible link would blow from that.

 

Sorry. I meant the fuse box under the bigger fuse box of the 2. I hooked the negative jumper to it. The only other time that I can think of that the link could have blown is when we changed the starter motor but the battery was disconnected for that.

 

I don't know what this means.

But since the blown fusible link is what caused your charging problem, and your need for a Jumpstart, I would say the blown link came before the improper Jumpstart.

 

There is one fuse box under the hood and one inside the cabin. I got no idea what you are looking at.
There are 2 computers mounted in front of the under hood fuse box. Most uninformed people think the fuse box is the battery, and so logically the 2 lugs are pos and neg: WRONG.
The box under those computers is the brake control module/ABS computer
#1 TCM
#3 ECM
#4 EBCM (electronic brake control module)
#5 fuse box