1854sailor
Resident Curmudgeon
Please read the OP's description of what is happening. I believe that the battery is fine. Ours, with the same symptom, is fine after a new starter was installed...before you go buying parts, get a darn multimeter
Please read the OP's description of what is happening. I believe that the battery is fine. Ours, with the same symptom, is fine after a new starter was installed...before you go buying parts, get a darn multimeter
Can you please tell me how a multimeter is going to figure out that the teeth on the starter gear are worn? Our battery was less than a week old when the exact same symptoms that the OP described began happening to our car. Catch for a split second, then just spin. It didn't happen every time just like on the OP's car. Based on the OP's description and my experience, I'm sticking with my diagnosis, and I didn't even have to use my multimeter......I'm not saying it's not the starter, just saying get a $10-$20 tool first. A tool that will work on almost every issue you can thing of on any electrical system from lights to radios.
Well first off your ears can do that. But you could technically test the amp load when operating and you would see very little amps pulled due to no load but your point is that if the starter teeth are bad that’s not an electrical issue. OP said it would not start, not that the starter made a bad grinding sound. SO.... He did not say it started until they jumped it, he said he could not get it to start and needed a jump start. I think you are reading his post wrongCan you please tell me how a multimeter is going to figure out that the teeth on the starter gear are worn? Our battery was less than a week old when the exact same symptoms that the OP described began happening to our car. Catch for a split second, then just spin. It didn't happen every time just like on the OP's car. Based on the OP's description and my experience, I'm sticking with my diagnosis, and I didn't even have to use my multimeter...
RRR, means like it was a dead battery. Told AAA what happened and they tried to jump it.Car would not start. I got the "rrr" briefly, then a shutdown. Called AAA who jumped it and I drove it to the dealership. They installed the battery last January and said it would be 100% covered if it was bad and that it might be the alternator.
I left it for the weekend. I picked it up yesterday and they said that "Nothing is wrong with the car."
Orlando
Go back and read post #7, please......I think you are reading his post wrong...
Go back and read post #7, please...
OP do you mean that the starter keeps spinning? After it stops cranking? Take your multimeter and test the amps being drawn from the starter when this happens and also from the solenoid, the small pill container size bit on the starter. You can jumper a 12g wire between the big wire and the starter to bypass the solenoid. If that works well than it’s the solenoid and not a connection. If it just stops working than it’s defiantly the starter...Many thanks, TDiJH and OH.
First, JH -- thanks for the tip on the meter. Will do. The morning was not cold and the car started right up on the first try when I left my house. No issues at all. It also didn't show "cold engine" when I tried to start it and it failed to start. It had been started and run prior to the failure to start.
The tech did mention that the difference between 12.2 and 12.4 might be a car that didn't start. They had let the car sit for two days before they started it yesterday and it started fine, and also started fine when I picked it up. I'll get the meter and test it to be certain.
OH -- there is a crank, but the car doesn't get enough power to turn over the engine. It goes "Rrr Rrr Rff" and then just doesn't engage. It isn't that thing where you hear a "click" and then nothing.