HELP!!!!! camaro wont start

[camaropimpz69]

Well like december 23 i put my car in my garage for storage and its been a mild winter so one nice day i went to take it out to drive to work and it wont start.It was running fine when i went to store it and the only thing i did when it was is storage was paint my calapers and change the pad. Now i got no power no accesories come o like radio,lights,ect. and it doesnt start. put the bat on the charger and it went to fully charged. someone help me whats WRONG???????
kyle

[DarkViper]

Have you checked the fuses?

[Camaro Bob]

Does the starter even try to turn the engine over, or do you get nothing? If your battery is fully charged, then it's probably either your starter, or a fuse. graemlins/burnout.gif

[nash]

i had a problem like this once. i had this total power failure like you're having. it was just the battery connection... one of the connectors was too loose. maybe all you have to do is tighten it really well... assuming you haven't already.

[camaropimpz69]

i checked all the fuses and they are all fine, didnt try to tighten the conections yet ill try that tonight. But if its the starter why would all my power be gone , wouldnt i be able to at least listen to the radio with a bad starter?

[camaropimpz69]

just checked the connections they are as tight as can be..... i hope i checked all the fuses, theres only the ones under the hood and the ones on the side of the counsel right? which fuse would it be. I NEED HELP!! thanks,
kyle
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[zlightning]

maybe a short or something.

[camaropimpz69]

thats what one of my friends told me it could be a short. how could i find out what is the short and how do i fix it ??? any ideas?
kyle

[Camaro Bob]

Sometimes battery cables can have the best connection, but a car won't get power. Above, I thought that your radio worked, but your starter didn't. Anyway, there is a separate ignition wire. I toasted mine in half and my stereo didn't even work either. As a matter of fact, when I would hit certain bumps, my car would just "shut off." Finally I found the small (about 8guage) ignition wire under the hood. It was corroded in half. All of the insulation was melted off. I spliced in a new wire where it was melted, and it seems to work great. It goes to the positive terminal I believe. It should be kinda obvious. Oh yeah, it was orange.
Also, try disconnecting your battery, mixing baking soda and water, and dump it over your battery, especially the terminals. It will remove all of the corrosion that stops connections. Then reconnect and try your car.
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[camaropimpz69]

well cleaned off the cables and took them off and put them back on TIGHT! still no power also checked that wire by the battery. it kind of comes off the cable in a Y or so thats fine. still need help thanks
kyle

[chevcamaro18]

starter----dead battery-----or ignition

[Camaro Bob]

Maybe its the ignition switch. I'm running out of ideas. Also, make sure the ground is tight.(off the battery) Without the ground, no circuits can be completed, meaning, nothing works. Just another idea. Man, this is weird. graemlins/burnout.gif

[DrMilhouse]

Power to your starter/ignition/accessories and everything all comes from some place. Get out the multimeter and start testing. First, make sure the battery has power itself. I'm asuming that the battery will have power, move on from there. Check continuity from the engine block to the negative terminal of the battery. I'm asuming yes there is. Check to make sure that there is power to the charging post that is where the distribution block for power that is under the hood. if there is power to the charging post, and there is ground to both the chassis of the car and the engine block, move on to the fuses that are in the distribution block. If they have some will, some won't. I would put the key to the "run" position for this because that will feed power to the fuses that are in question. The important thing to check when looking for power on fuses is touch the top of the fuse on one side, then the other. If it has power on one side of the fuse but not the other, it's obviously the fuse. Replace it and move on. If all the fuses that we're working on in the distribution block are showing power on both sides, then move on to the next. Check the wires that feed power in to the key switch. make sure it has power going in. I think the one you should be concerned with is red, but since I haven't seen anything specific about your car on this post, and most GM will have red or orange wires here, that's the wire to check. If it's sending power to the key switch, but the other wires are not sending power back out when it's set to run, you know the key mechanism is the issue. If this does have power, move on to the fuses in the inside that are on the left side of the dash. Checking all these things so far should point to the culprit. If not, come back with everything you have found out so far and we'll think of something else....

Let us know what it is if you find it.

HTH

[srogersilkl]

I am sure you have checked but just in case are you sure the trans is in park if you have an auto?

[Fusion]

Haha i would laugh so hard if it was in like Reverse or Neutral. LOL

[camaropimpz69]

ya its in park and everything tonight after i get out of work im going to check all the wires again ill get back to all u guys to tell you whats up
thanks,
Kyle

[black98V6]

I am thinking you have a bad ground. Had a friend with a pickup he drove it to the woods with no problem, gets back in it to go home and nothing. They drug it back to a bud of his house and after an hour called me. We went back, stopping at autozone to get a few things and it turned out to be a bad ground. This is the wire that runs from the battery to either the engine block or frame or both. He had the same symptoms as you. No radio, no lights no nothing. I'd check that first. Follow the wires coming from the battery and make sure they are tight on the other end/ends.

[camaropimpz69]

The grounds are tight. is there a chance that the wire itself is bad? I have had a few ppl tell me it sounds like a short somewhere, anyone know how to find and fix that short
kyle

[Camaro Bob]

With a ground tester(12v light bulb with wires), which you can buy cheap at Walmart, conect one lead to the positive post on your battery, and the other to your engine block/body. If the bulb lights, the ground is good. Check that first. That's really important. graemlins/burnout.gif

[MustangEater8251]

yep what he said, finding a short is going to be a ***** if you have no power.

Are you sure your battery is not bad, if it sat on a charger, then you tried to start the car it would not work. YOu can jump a car, run the car for a whole tank at high RPMs, and the Battery will still not hold enough charge to start the car. I am sure this is your problem, I cannot think of what else could all of sudden and coicidentally happen when your car just sits there.

Try Jumpin your car with another car it will probably work, if it doesn't you are in the clear.

[black98V6]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Camaro Bob:
With a ground tester(12v light bulb with wires), which you can buy cheap at Walmart, conect one lead to the positive post on your battery, and the other to your engine block/body. If the bulb lights, the ground is good. Check that first. That's really important. graemlins/burnout.gif <hr></blockquote>

yep.. if you get no light then either the batt is bad or the ground is bad.. and yes the wire can go bad.. espically if some moisture gets into a nick in the insulation or something like that.. as we all know rust don't conduct like good ole clean metal!

[Camaro Bob]

And you can even test your battery with the ground tester to make sure it is good. Just connect a lead to each post (+ and -) and it will light up if there is charge. Also, it will light up even if the charge is low enough to stop your car from starting. Jump it to check it. If it jump starts and you shut if off and it wont start again, it's the battery. Your car will actually run for a while off of the alternator.

[camaropimpz69]

Tryed to jump the camaro didnt work still no power im thinkin of towing it to a friend of the family who is a mechanic because this car is reall startin to PISS me off ill keep all u guys who tried to help me out posted
thanks,
kyle

[Wolfy]

I don't know if this is the same problem, I sort of scanned through the posts, but when I had my ranger, my batt cable when bad and I had power to turn on everything like the stereo and gauges and such, and when I went to start it, nothing, everything was dead. It turned out that my cable had corrosion through out the whole thing, i got a new cable and no problem.

[MustangEater8251]

so nothing on with the jump? Then its something other then the battery. I guess check your wires out, I had my alternator wire connector corroded out on me.

Also for the record, if your alternator is fine, as long as you jump the car, then you can run with a bad battery, battery jsut holds enough power to crank, the motor, and run fuel-pump anmd ignition, then it switches over to the alternator.

[3.4 slow to go]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr> I don't know if this is the same problem, I sort of scanned through the posts, but when I had my ranger, my batt cable when bad and I had power to turn on everything like the stereo and gauges and such, and when I went to start it, nothing, everything was dead. It turned out that my cable had corrosion through out the whole thing, i got a new cable and no problem. <hr></blockquote>


I'm thinking too. My Grand Prix just crapped out like this, only I have power to everything, just clicks. Even swapped in the battery from the 'bird & still the same thing :mad: :mad: :mad:

[grndlvl]

check for power at your fuse block in the car first if there is no power there check the wire that runs power to the fuse block mouse or something might have chewed it up.