SSMugen

Everything seems normal but one day I get in my car and push the red button and i hear a click sound but nothing happends. This has happened a few times before maybe a couple monthes apart. I just push start it and it works fine but then once a month or so it will do this. All electronics work fine and there are no check lights. Any suggestions before I take it in?

spider

Sounds like the battery is dying.

SSMugen

Thing is I jumped it but it didn't start.

beroznikmal

check your fuses both under the dash broad and in the engine bay.... start with th ignition fuse followed by the starter fuse.....
BEroz

SSMugen

Know which fuse it is under the dash?

beroznikmal

try #2 - fuel pump ,3 - engine start,4 - ignition coil

refer to this post
SSR on the bottom left is 1 the top left is # 13
http://forums.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.p...threadid=183490 diagram fuse panel legend.jpg





Hope this helps

Ztec

In my experience a battery with a bad cell will not allow you to jump it!

ntphan

I just had this happened to my Civic. It was running fine, then 2 days ago, it just woudn't start except for clicking. I was stucked at a library. I tried the jump cable multiple times without success. The windows and the interior lights were acting like they were having little power left. I pushed it to the gas station near by and had the mechanic checked; it was just a very bad (old) battery. It started instantly with a new battery. The mechanic was nice and didn't charge me anything but the cost of the battery.

SSMugen

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ntphan

chrissa

When you push the starter button, does it click lots of time really fast, or just once? If it's just once, than you have a bum starter relay. The solenoid in the relay powered up and moved the plunger to complete the circuit, but the plunger is either worn out or corroded and didn't actually make contact. My 240SX was plagued with this problem when the starter got really hot (+80F days were usually enough to get it to happen).

When you power the relay in a starter, it actually powers and unpowers itself over and over again. When the plunger makes contact, it not only feeds power to the starter motor, but it also shorts out the relay solenoid. The solenoid shuts down and allows the plunger to move back. Which un-shortens the solenoid, and the whole process starts over again...

That's why when you have a near dead battery, and you try to start a car, it clicks really fast. That clicking noise is the starter relay repeatedly slamming the plunger over and over again. But, if it only clicks once, than the plunger never completed the circuit.

Chris.