Early today I had a car problem
So I made a post earlier today about my car not starting. Here's what happened if you didn't catch that first post.
I got up for work, got all my stuff ready, go to my car at about 4:43am. I put my key in the ignition and turned the key to the ON position. I always do this before turning the key to crank the engine over. So when I turned the key to the ON position, all the dash lights came on like normal. I go to crank the engine over and everything just goes black. No sounds, no noises.
So I got home and dad and I took a look at it. He took the positive terminal off the battery and cleaned the cable connection, and cleaned the battery terminal as well. I put the key in and boom, everything came on. He said it was a dirty terminal. You can see a lot of, like when a AAA battery explodes, you could see all that acid stuff all on the terminal and the cable connector. He then did the same with the negative terminal.
Some people in my first post said earth cable. (not sure what that is) did they mean ground? Well it was actually just a dirty connector. I'm so glad it was a simple and easy fix and not something like a starter or alternator.
But before the night is over, I'm going to go out and start it up again, just to make sure it starts up.
I got up for work, got all my stuff ready, go to my car at about 4:43am. I put my key in the ignition and turned the key to the ON position. I always do this before turning the key to crank the engine over. So when I turned the key to the ON position, all the dash lights came on like normal. I go to crank the engine over and everything just goes black. No sounds, no noises.
So I got home and dad and I took a look at it. He took the positive terminal off the battery and cleaned the cable connection, and cleaned the battery terminal as well. I put the key in and boom, everything came on. He said it was a dirty terminal. You can see a lot of, like when a AAA battery explodes, you could see all that acid stuff all on the terminal and the cable connector. He then did the same with the negative terminal.
Some people in my first post said earth cable. (not sure what that is) did they mean ground? Well it was actually just a dirty connector. I'm so glad it was a simple and easy fix and not something like a starter or alternator.
But before the night is over, I'm going to go out and start it up again, just to make sure it starts up.
