chris95lt1ta

I tried starting my 95 trans am and it wouldn't start made a loud click and that was it no power. I charged the battery auto zone told me it was still good and the car ran beautiful for 3 days. I parked it last night and it wouldn't start this morning. If someone could give me advice what to start. Checking and doing that would be great.

Grimes

iTrader: (3)

The thing to do in this case is to get a multimeter, and use it to see where you are getting the current drain when the car is off. Start pulling fuses one by one, and check at the fuse terminal to see if there is significant current draw at one of them. This is a good way to narrow things down.

diagnosticddt

Sounds like a parasitic drain somewhere. Like the guy said, use a multimeter and check the wiring.

Undertow74

iTrader: (45)

yes, definatly a drain do as stated above, if you have a sterio system installed that could be draining your battery also. but start pullin fuses to isolate it to wich system is causing the drain. Could be the alarm system also, that with a number of things.....

jam01

when you say it lost all power do you mean nothing had power? if that is the case i would check all cables and connections.

chris95lt1ta

Yea nothing had power nothing at all

jam01

check the connections on your starter also.

Anniversary "Z"

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Was the battery light coming on at all? Have you checked you alternator? Does it smell hot? (electrical hot smell)<-----scientific terminology

chris95lt1ta

They said alternator was good aint checked starter yet I was gonna try the multimeter and no the battery light never came on. This starting happening after this shop replaced the pass side window motor and regulator. Could that have something to do with it?

chris95lt1ta

No hot smell either I think it might be draining somewhere

98boxer

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don't trust autozone employees to check you alternator, or starter from my past experiance with autozone they told me my alternator was good then i took it to napa and they told me i had a dead alternator. autozone retested and the alternator was no good they gave me a (new) bad alternator.

LooseMoose

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+1 on checking the wires on your starter

Anniversary "Z"

iTrader: (26)

Shouldn't unless when they disconnected the battery (standard protocol for anythig electrical) they fudged a connection somewhere? Might be worth disconnecting the battery terminals and make sure you are getting good contact. This happened in my burb and I ended up adding a brass washer between the batt cable and terminal and no probs since.

Side mount batteries with the big rubber hood on the cables can sometimes restrict connectivity.

The Bronx Bull

Also, your starter solenoid. That'll click like a bastard when it's busted.