my car was running fine 20 minutes before school..hop in my car to go to school...car wont start...clicking..ok dead battery or so i thaught?...next thing i know my car alarm starts going off..ive had this car for about a yr..never heard the alarm before, i dont have the keyless entry cause my power locks dont work n e way so i misplaced the remote for it...i throw a charger on the battery to realize its got a full charge? n e one with any info please w/b asap ...i need my car soooooooooooooooooooo bad this week...this bs always happens to me....i was thinking maybe somehow my ignition isnt recognizing my key? but then it wouldnt even be clicking right or am i wrong!?

thanks for any and all info

 

Sounds to me like your alarm armed somehow. There should be a valet switch somewhere. Pull the negative battery terminal and let everything go dead and reset. Maybe that will trick it or something. Otherwise youre going to need that key fob.

 

Could also be one of your battery cables (loose/corrosion). Check the cables at BOTH ends... not just at the battery. If you see a lot of green or white powder, you probably have a bad cable that's not getting a good connection.
A bad or loose connection would likely set that alarm off (it's just like you unhooked the battery then hooked it back up again... it triggers the alarm). As OldSchoolF22 said above, you'll have to find some way to disable the alarm now that it's been tripped (most alarms will shut-off the ignition). Find that override or valet button.
Good luck!

 

thanks bro..i thaught of that but it was to late...thats how i was reseting my ecu for awhile but now i pull the fuse...damn o2 sensors.

 

ok pullin the battery for 20 min didnt even do it..when i turn the key theres clicking before i get to the start position..when its on acc the clicking starts..anyone plz help...and where is this infamous valet switch..ive looked for a while..then again i dont even know where my alarm is primarily cause i didnt even think i had one plz help

 

i do believe this is a stock alarm..where would it be located on my 5th gen..and what can i do to bypass it..i dont really care if i totally disable it as i didnt know it had an alarm till all this bs...i think its just a short somewhere becuase it jus hisses and pops when on acc (not start) and all the dash lights flicker or come on dim...the battery has a full charge...please help me..i need my car friday to drive to long island for a wedding....battery connections are clean, grounds are in place..i can hear the crackling noise when on acc its coming from below the intake..is it safe to say that where the noise is coming from is where the short is?

any help is much appreciated

thanks garrett

 

You actually hear a crackling noise????????????? I would say yes..umm a crackling noise is bad...I would get under than and inspect it, you dont want an electrical fire...

 

yeah its beginning to sound like more of an electrical short... of which the 5th Gens have been known to have. I think one of the recalls they had was for something electrical if memory serves me right.

 

yeah its your ignition, there is a short and im betting it has to do with something between your ignition, start position switch, the alarm, and starter.

I would first check all the fuses, internal box, and external box. Then go check the starter make sure all the connections to it are in good shape and accounted for. If all thats good then the hard stuff begins, might as well start taking apart your dash for the ignition wires to the key switch. Basically you need to trace all the wires running from your ignition switch ALL OF THEM. I really think it is the wire that hooks up to your alarm that whoever installed on the car didnt make a good connection or ground for it. So either the positive from the alarm is hitting bare metal causing your ignition to be a double negative in current flow which would be really bad, or your alarm system keeps resetting itself because the ground is disconnected but still brushing up against its connection.

If its not just a short or open circuit, I think you should just take it somewhere because when this happened to me it was my ignition switch, and they had to replace it. The funny thing is, I was doing nothing when mine when out on me and then I went to start it the next morning and it wouldnt crank and the key wouldnt hold in the start posistion it would attempt to start by turning on all my gauge cluster lights and warning lights but that was it so yeah goodluck man that was my advice hope it helps

 

Most likely a bad igntion switch, you need to take the steering column covers out and see. You can test the wires coming out of the switch there. The alarm is going off because the wire that gets postive 12 volts when the ignition is turned to the 'on' position is not gettting any voltage, meaning the switch is not working. I would definitely start there.