timmya2

alrite i dunno wat the hell happened

but this is my story..

i got home..it was a nice day after college.. put her in the garage.. everything was fine..

i got my new lenses and white gauges today so i replaced my parking lenses to my new after market clear lenses that i got from rotaryrx7.com..

now being an automatic.. i put her on nuetral, took handbreak off.. and pushed her a lil bit so she could properly fit in the garage...

i didnt have time to put the white gauges on

i took a break.. and slept for about 3 hours..

i came back to the garage.. tried to start her.. but NOTHING!

no starter click, no engine motion, no sound etc.

NOTHING AT ALL!!

all the lights were still working.. it aint the battery or anything..

i suspected it could be the IMMOBOLISER.. (this damn thing)
so i switched her off then on again.. STILL NOTHING!

i took out the whole immoboliser switch and got a peg and touched the two wires together.. tried to start her.. AND STILL NOTHING!

i was like.. WAT THE F?

after 1 hour of trying to start her.. i gave up and thought of you guys right away..

PLEASE COME TO THE RESCUE

peace

Keaponlaffen

you did put it back into park again, right?

timmya2

yeh its in park..

sometimes the car doesnt start at park.. i think it thinks its still in reverse..

but it ALWAYS starts when its in neutral...

now i tried it both nuetral and park..

STILL NOTHING!!

pls help

Rotary13B1

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IMPORTANT NOTE: Not that I have done that before.....

It's pretty embarassing when some guy I know, has to call his bro in law about the auto honda that won't start...dunno what "he" was thinking.. that "guy" still gets clowned about it now...

To his defense: he drives an SE that starts without depressing the clutch..good ol 84's

timmya2

what honda guy????

nooo!

lets stick to my problem :P

Keaponlaffen

check the starter by jumping the terminals. If that works then you know it's the ignition switch... or the wiring.

vladu13

I have a 5 speed and one day while parking it, my foot slipped off the clutch and it stalled. I put it in neutral and tried to start it again and NOTHING! I unhooked the battery cables, and then put them back on and the car started! To this day I have no idea what happened.

msimonov

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Do a search for battery cabels. If you don't find anything here search the net. There are several articles out there about the weaknesses in an 18+ year old ignition. The first thing to do in clean the connections at the battery and start well. Just doing this has fixed similar symptoms on my car.

Manntis

might be a silly question, but what voltage reading are you getting? The lights (except headlights) will work on low voltage, but the starter won't turn below 9 or 10 volts.

Incideltally, while I'm flattered by your thread title there are several people in this forum as knowledgable, or moreso, than I when it comes to these cars

bliffle

Check the ground cable that goes from the battery. A drop of as little as 1.5 volts in this cable can kill your starter. Also, that cable is subject to corrosion from the battery acid.

B

Manntis

Ask Moses about corrosion on the battery cable. His car wouldn't start on the weekend, and we noticed excessive corrosion (a sort of white/green flaky mess) on the pos cable. We chopped off a few inches, then had to cut it AGAIN as the corrosion went a good 6" up the cable!

I stripped the wire and attached a new clamp. We reconnected the battery (after replacing the neg one too, since they came 2 to a pack) and his SA fired right up, no problems.

Well, still some carb problems but they were unrelated to starting & he solved those later

RotorMotorDriver

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Yeah, battery cables can be really weird. As Manntis said, mine were corroded a ways up under the insualtion too. I stripped mine back and cut off the nasty, new terminals and no more problems. I also replaced the ring terminals and so on where it meets the chasis for the ground and the starter and what not though. I dont think that going that far is quite that neccessary, but it cant hurt .

~T.J.

Rotor13B

Uh, No one mentioned the signal wire on the starter.

Dom

If your car sometimes doesn't start from park but always starts from neutral then there is a definate problem with your inhibitor switch. It's under the car at the transmision where the shifting linkage hooks up.

Seems to me that you should start repairing the known problems and work your way to the maybes.

1984se

pop the clutch ! oh wait its automatic... sorry i can t help.

timmya2

wow thanx heaps guys..

theres a mechanic coming over today..

i hope he finds out the problem..
i think its not only starting in park because its still a lil bit in reverse..


but if i push it hard up so it goes all the way up in park.. it turns

so its not the inhibitor switch

maybe it is the ignition


btw manttis.. the voltage is 12

timmya2

ok mechanic couldnt fix it..

he said its something to do with electrical..


inhibitor switch or something thats in the shifter.. its like a safety switch so u cant start the car in drive or reverse..

im gonna have to get an auto electrician

Pele

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Find my thread. Search for "End all to no start threads" with my name as the creator.

Now I know why y'all get kinda antsy when people don't search... I can feel my eyebrow twitching.

timmya2

i did search.. didnt find yours...


plus i just read yurs..

and didnt have much on inhibitor switches

but it is very good.. im definately gonna print it out and shjow the mechanic.. maybe he can follow the steps in making sure everything is ok to start incase its not the inhibitor

Manntis

did you examine the battery cable ends? Moses had exactly the same symptoms with his SA. ONe day it would start, then (when the corrosion got too much) it wouldn't even click.

Dom

Okay now I'm gettting confused,... does it or does it not crank, or attempt to crank????

You said if you push it up hard in park it turns

Then your mechanic friend says inhibitor switch. Which would mean it didn't even attempt to crank.

If it's the inhibitor switch, then you can find it under the car at the transmision where the gear linkage hooks up.

I would short the switch and test crank.

timmya2

no i didnt say if i push it hard it cranks?

i mean like if its in park.. before this happened...

now it wont start regardless if its in park or nuetral.. it just wont crank at all..

everything else works.. everything is lighting up..

plus he did go under the car.. and linked it.. and it did crank... so hes gussing it could be the inhibitor switch

oh and mantis.. what cables are you talking about? that need cleaning..

Manntis

The two cables that clamp onto your battery terminals

timmya2

oh.. yeh mine is fairly corroded..

just give em a wash? with water?

timmya2

HEY MY CAR STARTS!!!

IT WAS SO ****** SIMPLE!!!

DAMN!

NRMA road side assistance came to my house.. and all he said was the starter wire wasnt connected!!

he went under the car.. i heard a small click..as he connected it back.

i tried to start her.. AND VROOM VROOM!!

BABY OH BABY HOW I MISS YOU..

WOO HOO!

thanx for the help guys
im off to drive her now.. peace