Anyone know electrical stuff??

[mrz28M6]

My car wouldnt start this morning. Its a brand new battery, anbd when i turn the key to the start position all the power and radio and everything turn on then i push the clutch in and try to start the car and all i hear is a click and the power turns off. Any ideas anyone?? Or anyone willing to take a look at it? I will pay for it to get fixed, i just dont wanna get raped by a dealer.

[SlowStee]

is the battery trying to turn over at all?....this sounds like a similar problem i had......any past problems ?

[mrz28M6]

no its not even trying to turn over at all!!

[SlowStee]

so it just clicks when you turn the key?.....i would say try charging the battery up......a bad alternator, or battery cable can easily suck the juice out of a new battery.....try charging it....dont go to a dealership for your problem, thats one of the worst things you can do

[9C1 Driver]

You say that when you try to turn the engine over that the radio turns off? That's pretty strange. When was the battery replaced?

I'm thinking it might be a bad battery, or that maybe the alternator failed and killed the battery, or something like that. Try jump starting it and see what happens...

[bustamove]

Originally posted by FoRmuLa_DriVa
is the battery trying to turn over at all?....this sounds like a similar problem i had......any past problems ?

I hate it when the battery doesn't turn over :goof

[Max 93]

I would say a bad starter

[mrz28M6]

i just bought a new battery today and thats not the solution i guess. I still got the same results. I got it jump started then it started and i waited a little bit and turned the car off, then tried to start it again and it wouldnt start. I also bought new terminals cause i thought maybe the old ones were too coroded. Anyone else have any ideas??

[Brian98GTP]

Solenoid/starter ?

[lotsals1]

it is either a bad ground or a loose starter wire at the very worst
a starter -check the ground comming off the neg. terminal --take a jumper cable and put it on the neg. post ONLY and then take the other end of the cable and clamp it on some chasis part that is bare metal--or to a bolt on the engine block like a alt bolt
if thats not i would guess the starter

[SlowStee]

its could be a bad alternator, how are your amps reading??....also it could be a bad battery cable, not just the terminals........i doubt its the starter if your battery isnt turning over

[Ricky Bobby]

definately check cables then like they said at worst bad starter

[88camaro]

mine did that. where everything would power up. then when i would go to start it it would chick then all the power would go out. it ended up been the wires to the starter were loose. So you might want to check that.

[A B4C Z]

Hate to break it to ya fomula DRIVA but a battery cant turn over. ;)

And it cant be a alternator if it didnt even start up with a new fully charged battery.

Kyle.

Id say it has to be somethign with the starter.

[SlowStee]

hey someones gotta put me in my place :D

[Scales]

I vote starter too. Had a similar problem myself...

(and my battery didn't turn over either :goof )

[SlowStee]

alright enough with the battery turning over:durr

[SMS 1]

I turned my battery over once to try and fix that problem, but the car still didn't start and I got acid all over the place:durr j/k lol!

Another vote for wires/starter here.

[BadAzzGTA89]

Take a wrench to the back of thr alt on the bearing if it sicks the diodes are sticking draining your battery!!! and check your fuseable links

[PB86MCSS]

I also think it would probably be the starter, if the battery is new. I had a similar problem with my Cavalier this winter during the bitter cold...but turned out to be the battery, I already yanked a salvage yard starter solenoid in case. If you haven't already when checking the cables clean all the connetions pretty good at the battery and starter and in between. Good luck!

[mrz28M6]

ok guys thanks for the help, i am beginning to think there is a dead spot in the starter but i guess i will find out.

[SlowStee]

jus remember...DONT take it to a dealership.....i'm anti-dealership

[mrz28M6]

they should give you a can of vasoline upon payment, cause they rape you so bad at dealerships:Hump

[Hetfield]

Like what has already been said, make sure those battery connections are tight. (8mm wrench) What you said is exactly what happenes if the terminals are not tightened down all the way.

Good luck. :)

[Al]

There are many thing s that can go wrong between the battery and the starter. I have had all of themo go. Try whacking your starter with a sledge hammer to try to move it out of the psssible dead position.

[SMS 1]

Originally posted by 02hawk796


the dealer would have sold you a new battery, first thing, and installed it, then "lost" the old one. because the battery is the least likely cause of the problem and the highest profit margin for any auto parts seller, and most people don't know the diff. They lose the old one so nobody can prove it was still good. most any mechanic does the same thing, either for the same reason as the dealer, or cause they have no clue what they're doing (no iron-clad way to determine which).

:rolleyes:

[mrz28M6]

ok guys all fixed!! I bought a different set of terminals cause my buddy said the brand terminals i bought were garbage so i exchanged them for new ones with lock nuts. The damn car started up just like that. Geez sometimes i feel like a fool. lol :yawn:

[88camaro]

good job atlease it wasnt something the would cost alot or be pain in the butt to do.:banana

[FiErO-5spd]

I'm 150% sure it's the starter, all cars turn off their lights and stereo while starting, that's normal, but the clicking is the starter. I've had to replace about six starters on different cars and all of them do that same thing.

[SMS 1]

Originally posted by FiErO-5spd
I'm 150% sure it's the starter, all cars turn off their lights and stereo while starting, that's normal, but the clicking is the starter. I've had to replace about six starters on different cars and all of them do that same thing. Um, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but, if you read the other posts you would see that he already got it fixed. And it was not the starter:rolleyes:

[BadAzzGTA89]

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