Here's the deal. When I put my key in the ignition and turn it to the "on" position my radio works and my interior lights come on and everything else. When I try to start my car nothing happens at all. The gauges all go back down as if there was no key in the ignition. When I put the key back to the "off" position you can hear a clicking under the intake manifold (2200/2.2L). I tried to jump the starter with 2 screw drivers which didn't work. The car is a 2002 Cavy also. Any help on this would be greatly appricated.
aaron reinhardt wrote:Here's the deal. When I put my key in the ignition and turn it to the "on" position my radio works and my interior lights come on and everything else. When I try to start my car nothing happens at all. The gauges all go back down as if there was no key in the ignition. When I put the key back to the "off" position you can hear a clicking under the intake manifold (2200/2.2L). I tried to jump the starter with 2 screw drivers which didn't work. The car is a 2002 Cavy also. Any help on this would be greatly appricated.
get a new battery or try getting a jump start
I hooked a battery charger up to the car for about 1 hour and nothing. The car won't even turn over. All of the interior lights and dash lights work, radio even works, just no turn over, just dead silence when I turn it to the "start" position.
hmm check your fuses.. ? check your plug wires see if any is loose... also your battery may be completely dead and mabe it wont take the charge. from what your saying it doesnt even try to turn over? no clicking sound even? oh and check your battery terminals. start with the small things before you get into bigger ones.. mabe be as simple as blown ign. fuse.
I checked all my fuses and none are blown. If the battery were dead the lights on the interior of the car wouldn't even come on would they? Yes, I'm saying the car doesn't even try to turn over, no clicking, no sound at all. Battery terminals are good to go.
Did you check the Negative Battery cable where it is bolted to the chassis/engine block?
You need to disconnect at the Battery end and then the other points (chassis/block),
make sure the cable ends and the connection points are "shiny" clean before reconnecting.
Alont
so it doesnt crank? Pull the starter out and take it to a parts store and have them test it.
------------------------------------------------------------
cavmania wrote:so it doesnt crank? Pull the starter out and take it to a parts store and have them test it.
Right, it doesn't crank, click, or anything. I'll pull the starter out later today.
take your battery as well. I swapped my optima redtop from my wrecked car into the new one. It had set for almost a month, and the new car wouldn't even click with the red top. Put my oem back in, started right up.
*****************************************************************
"The J's weren't designed to be sports cars, the suspension sucks, the brakes are tiny, and the target market for our car doesn't need to be able to do any more than 65mph." - Shifted
A more accurate observation has never been typed. These should be the starting points before any serious performance modification. What's the point of making a serious performer if you can't control it's power?
well, it's not the starter or battery because they both checked out good. I have no idea what else to look for. When you turn the car to the "off" position you can hear a weird clicking sound from under the intake manifold.
My car is doing the same exact thing.
But its not the same thing every time.
When I turn the key to the on position everything on the dash looks normal. When I turn to start everything goes dead and I hear nothing.
Then take the key out and I hear the click click click click click coming from somewhere.
Sometimes when I turn the key to start I hear the starter solenoid click and the lights stay on but it wont even try to turn over.
I suppose I will have to get out my multimeter and try to find out where the voltage is stopping...
I charged my battery fully and cleaned the ground wires.
Any Advice on things to check?
Mine is a 97 2.2 with 200k miles on it.
I don't know if this will help or not, but I once had a problem with my ABS fuse (40A) or something. It was the big ones. And it looked Good, not blown. But as soon as I put a new fuse in there, my ABS problem was fixed. So, i guess my point is, sometimes the fuse may look good, but if it's really old, it may still be bad. Try replacing the large IGN fuse. Other than that, check for 12V at the starter with a volt meter on the correct terminals. Be careful not to cross them, since the starter motor may spin and spook you.
My car has a similar starting problem now, where it sounds like a bad solenoid. I get the click from the starter each time I turn the key, but the starter works everything at the parts store when they test it. It seems to happen more often after I leave the car sitting. So, i'm thinking my battery may not be holding a charge as well anymore. Anyways, that is different than your car.
Check your netural safety switch on the clutch pedal
anybody ever figure this out my car is doing the same thing and im confused at this point. help
When you turn the car to the on position, can you hear the fuel pump kick on? If not check the fuse under the hood and the fuse in the car.
im an idiot it was the starter relay. i took out the fan/ac relay and plugged it in to test it and it started right up.
