Car won't start
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Teching In
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Car won't start Bad storm yesterday in Colorado... I drove to Walmart and drove home and parked it and stared shoveling... I come back out and all the lights come on and the fuel pump kicks on and when I twist the key nothing happens! Any ideas I'm broke and can't afford to take it anywhere or even get it towed any ideas helps greatly!
Last edited by GMsfinest; Mar 24, 2016 at 03:51 PM.
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Bad battery?
Bad starter?
That's where I'd check first. You can have enough juice to turn on lights but not enough to crank it. I guess after that I'd think about VATS causing problems but I'm no expert. Do you have another key you could try?
Bad starter?
That's where I'd check first. You can have enough juice to turn on lights but not enough to crank it. I guess after that I'd think about VATS causing problems but I'm no expert. Do you have another key you could try?
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Teching In
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From: CO
My car did this today. Drove it to work then after work it wouldn't start. Took my battery to get tested. They told me bad battery. My positive cable had corrosion. Cut that piece off and bought a cable fix repair and started right up. Paid $10 instead of a $100 battery
Nice it started after I came back after a few hours and that battery is only 6 months old and the premium with the highest cold cranking amps I feel like it was a key switch or something maybe like the other guy said maybe my resistor in my key was jacked up I'm not looking forward to the mystery off getting stranded somewhere
I had the VATS go out on mine, did not matter which key I used. It was an intermittent "no crank". By that I mean no starter rotation, everything else came on as it should. I could normally cycle the key a few times and it would finally crank. Other times I would wait a period of time and then it would crank. It progressively got worse and I ended up using a resistor inline and bypassing it, was pretty broke a the time. There's a sticky on here somewhere that tells how to do this if that's what you ultimately determine is the problem.
