Hey everyone,

Just bought this car last Thursday, 96 EX 5spd, has a rebuilt engine with only about 300 miles on it. I drove it around for a couple days and then took it up to school about 100 miles away. The car ran fine on the way up, but once at school the thing won't start, doesn't even turn-over. It just makes this clicking sound that sounds like the windshield wiper relay but it's not because it clicks at a different interval. Any ideas here guys? Could this be the starter motor relay sending a signal to a broken connection? It's not the battery because I already tried a jumpstart which didn't do anything and everything else electronic in the car works fine. It was raining on the drive up to school, could that have something to do with it? This sucks

 

Sounds like the starter doesnt work.

 

:werd:

Try beating on it with the club while you try to start it. I read on previous HAN threads that this can work to get it started, but of course is only a temporary fix.

 

The reason I don't think its the starter motor is because it went from working perfectly each time to not working at all, not even a little bit. Don't starter motors usually die with some kind of slow degeneration? Anyway, I'm having it checked out tomorrow, my feeling is that its some electrical connection that went bad. I checked the leads that go from the battery to the starter motor and those looked okay. Hopefully this won't be expensive...

 

mmm if the car die on u while running it or on then is not the starter but if u turn off the car and try to turn it back and it doesnt start then the starter is a highly posible solution. it could b something with the ignition but with a rebuild motor who knows of the millions things that can b wrong.
correct me if i am wrong so i can learn from my mistake

 

check you fuses

 

Alright, for those of you who are interested, I have the extremely embarrassing conclusion to this little story. Okay, so as I said I bought this car about a week ago, and I noticed that it had a little red light installed in the dash as part of a security system, but I thought nothing of it. However, there is also a little engine cut-off switch just above the hood release down by the pedals that I was very unaware of. So I guess I must have kicked it into the "off" position getting out of the car. h: Unfortunately, this did cost me a little bit because I had the mechanic that does the security and maintanence vehicles here at school take a look at it, and he did a diagnostic of the starter motor and some other things before finding the switch after he saw the little red light. So I paid him $25 for his time, which is little compared to the money I was ready to shell-out for a new alternator or starter motor. Still a lot for flipping a switch though... I'll consider it an expensive lesson. Thanks for all your help everyone.

 

nice

 

lol good thing it was a cheap one and ofcourse be happy ur car will take the thieves 3seconds longer