I've been having a reoccuring problem with my 99 sunfire. The car will occaisionally decide it does't want to start. By this i mean nothing in the the car works, no lights, chimes, power anything. i've tried jumping the car when the happens but still nothing works. The strangest thing is that after leaving the car a while it acts fine again. The indicator on the top of my battery says i have a full change and the car runs fine after a while so i am at loss as to the problem. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated as this is a large problem i only see getting worse. Thank you
Hi Chris
I would check :-
1. The earth wiring to the chassis and engine-clean cable ends and where they connect to
2. The Starter positive wiring (With the Battery disconnected) This is usually used as a main junction for Electrical power, make sure it is not loose. Check the Battery positive terminal end as well.
3. Unlikely but could be a bad Fusible link
I have seen these symptoms in quite a few cases of a loose/corroded connection-one which appears good visually
Hope it helps anyway
Alont
all the above and pull and put back your IGN fuses, there is on inside the car and at least one in the engine bay. a little oxidation goes a long way.
good luck man
First off thanks for the replies. Secondly i did a little bit of what you both said. I found that the positive battery terminal/connector was heavily corroded so i cleaned that with a wire brush and a tool i bought which said was designed to remove corrosion on batteries. I also pulled my underhood fuses and cleaned the connectors throughly. The car started right away so (knocks on wood) hopefully the problem is solved but we'll see in a few days.
good to here if you have anymore trouble out of it post back in this thread. I'm not usually in the forum.
i'm getting some serious corrosion on my battery terminals too man, so bad it corroded my power cable to my amp in half and the ground terminal was so corroded it couldnt be jumped..so i had to scrape it off with the jumper clamp
they beat me to posting a reply about it, but as long as its fixed
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