Hey guys, well Ive fixed the slow cranking/hard starting issues and that bring me to more problems.
Ocassionally when I go to start the car it will start and die twice, on the third time the THEFT light comes on....after the light blinks for 10 min it usually starts up.
Once the car start up the dash lights up with - Seat Belt light, Air Bag light and Check Engine light but usually will keep running at a rough idle for a few seconds and putter out unless you pull off immediately.
When you shift out of park the ABS light, Brake light, Theft Sytem light and Security light come on, the DRL light also flashes no matter if the lights are on or not.
I have no interior lights either, when you open the door or turn the switch manually and the cooling fan is always running.
Acceleration is really slow and choppy on the low end but once your at id say 40+ you would never know it had an issue - until you take your foot off the gas pedal, then you can hear clicking like a relay under the dash and it makes the seat belt chime and the radio resets!
I am COMPLETELY lost here, I know its something electrical but where do I even start?!?!!??
no thoughts on this at all?
Hi,
Pull your dash cluster and check the connectors/connections. It could also be a bad dash cluster.
Most of the items indicated by the warning lights are not related and the sensors are located in various parts of the car. The only thing they have in common is that they are energized by the ignitions switch and they all have indicators on the cluster.
Check all the grounds on the car, this is important for electricity will do really strange things if it cannot find a good ground. It back feeds and goes places at times that it should not go and normally will not go. Electricity MUST find a ground and it will in any way it can.
Dave
would a bad ignition switch or a pcm cause this?
part if the misfire was eliminated by changing out the plug wires, found a cracked boot on number 1.
I noticed if im sitting in park running the only light on is the check engine, if i put my foot on the brake pedal for a few seconds or shift into any gear the brake system and abs lights come on...
new plugs and wires and i verified spark at all the plugs by cranking it over with a plug in the wire.
How would i know if an injector was bad vs a bad computer causing all these problems?
