please help wont start
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please help wont start When I try to start the car all it does is click. Replaced the starter because I figured maybe the starter was bad and now it has the same issue. I bump started the car and it ran fine. But when I try to start it afterwards it starts once, sounds HORRIBLE starting. Then anytime after that it doesn't start it just goes back to clicking.
I'm freaking lost.
I'm freaking lost.
If it's not your TPS then it's your opti taking a ****. If you push start it and it runs with no problems then it's your TPS, if you push start it and runs like **** then it's either TPS, OPTI or BOTH. That's my opnion, went through this with few LT1s. Let us know what u find out, we might learn something new.
Alternator? Hmmmm, try to jump it, if it fires up drive it to advance and check the alternator. I honestly doubt it though but I can be wrong. Here's my opnion about the alternator:
When alternators go bad they'll completely drain the battery, if the battery is completely drained (Which in most cases it happens when you keep trying to fire it up as that takes a LOT of the battery) then your engine WON'T EVEN ATTEMPT TO FIRE UP and you wouldn't even hear that "Clicking" sound. Easiest way to check alternator is to jump it, drive to advance and check the alternator.
I still think it's ur TPS or Opti taking a ****.
When alternators go bad they'll completely drain the battery, if the battery is completely drained (Which in most cases it happens when you keep trying to fire it up as that takes a LOT of the battery) then your engine WON'T EVEN ATTEMPT TO FIRE UP and you wouldn't even hear that "Clicking" sound. Easiest way to check alternator is to jump it, drive to advance and check the alternator.
I still think it's ur TPS or Opti taking a ****.
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Opti is brand new, less than 1000 miles on it so it's not the opti. And the batter has full voltage on crank up. I tested it with a voltmeter. It's not the alternator.
I'm going to check the ground tomorrow, and take back this new starter because that's not it and I'd rather have my money back then anything.
I'm going to check the ground tomorrow, and take back this new starter because that's not it and I'd rather have my money back then anything.
I'm scared about that for mine.. My 97 TA WS6 A4 clicks for awhile and sounds like complete garbage before it starts if I let it sit in the cold garage without starting it for over 3 days 
Got it in a neighbor's garage.. but might man up and scrape my DD to keep it in my warmer, more insulated garage
Got it in a neighbor's garage.. but might man up and scrape my DD to keep it in my warmer, more insulated garage
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see i drive the car everyday, it sits in a garage though every night. i thought it might be the starter because i was aware that with the bumped compression the starter might take a crap on me eventually so that's why i thought starter at first, but now i have no idea. checking the ground today after family leaves.
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r u sure you put the wiring back on the starter correctly????just asking....do a voltage drop at the starter make sure to check all wires going down to starter you may have a break in the wires going down to the starter also check the ground cable just above the starter make sure its good.
your issue definitely lies within the starter/wiring. does the starter ever work? try having a friend hold to ignition to crank while you hit the starter motor with a hammer. if it frees up, starter is bad.
If it's not your TPS then it's your opti taking a ****. If you push start it and it runs with no problems then it's your TPS, if you push start it and runs like **** then it's either TPS, OPTI or BOTH. That's my opnion, went through this with few LT1s. Let us know what u find out, we might learn something new.
I would say alternator, but you can't drive a car 30 minutes several times running just off the battery, the thing would be completely dead knowing the way you drive it. Starter wiring maybe...but you better hope not or else i wont let you live it down
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shut up fool. haha. i got back the old starter and my $150 since that wasn't it. so i'm going to clean the grounds off today and reground it and hopefully that works.
