GP1138 Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Strange issue, I'm wondering if it's electrical or just the starter/solenoid going out. Last week, the car randomly would not crank. Battery fine, all lights work, but when you go to start it it just sits there. No click, no crank, zip. I'm wondering why this would happen. So I get a screwdriver and jump the starter terminals and it cranks right up. Starts fine after that until yesterday, when I come home with it and park it under the carport. It ended up I pulled up too far and one of the posts of the carport was blocking the door travel, so I cranked it up again and backed up slightly. When I cut the car off I decided to make sure it would still start.... nope. Same shit. I'm going out to see if letting it cool off helped but I'm expecting to have to jump the terminals again. WTF?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White93z34 Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Security lamp on? think it could be a VATS issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1138 Posted June 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 That's the thing, the SECURITY lamp has been on since we've had the car, constantly, but we've never had this issue. I'm assuming it was bypassed somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White93z34 Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 If it was bypassed it would not have that lamp lit. it just failed with the key in the on position. maybe its still messed up somehow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1138 Posted June 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Well now it starts just fine. WTF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White93z34 Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Sounds like what my Bonneville was doing. Got downright annoying. Finally soldered a resistor into the VATS lines and it has not done it since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertISaar Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 yank the VATS starter disable relay and connect the two load wires together(10 guage, IIRC), that will rule out the VATS module or a faulty relay as preventing cranking. from the diagrams i've seen in alldata, the 94 cars may use a different wiring setup for the VATS system and actually use considerably smaller wires than the 95-up cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19Cutlass94 Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Same thing happened to me. Check your power wires. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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