Charged battery, but doesn't even try to start.
When I turn the key nothing happens. It doesn't try to turn over. Doesn't make a single sound
- When you turn the key do you have power inside the car for things like headlights, heater fan etc.
- Is the trans in neutral / park
. I know the battery is fully
Just because you had the battery on a charger does not mean it is fully charged.
What voltage does it measure with nothing turned on.
What voltage does it measure with the headlights turned on
. Whenever I was just sitting at an idol it would die and I would have to start it and keep the idle fairly fast just to keep it from dying on me in the drive-thru
- If the alternator and all wiring was working properly the engine would not die unless the battery was shorted and pulling too many amps causing the voltage to get too low to run the car.
- If the alt or wiring was bad and the car was running on battery only, the car should keep running till the battery was too low to run the car. Turning off the headlights ( assuming they were on) will lighten the load on a low battery and no alternator.
Starting a car and driving short hops is like a bank account.
This happened to my daughter in real life.
Let's say you have 100 dollars in you account.
Every time you start the car you take 10 out of the account.
Now you drive for 10 minutes and put 5 back into your account.
Now your account has only 95 dollars.
Do that enough times and sooner or later you will not have enough dollars in your account to start your car.
Rather than damage your starter relay terminals with a screwdriver get a real remote starter switch. That will also help diagnose a problem with the NSS cir.
