kef300

So I go to the garage to go to work drop the kids off at daycare and nothing but clicking.I try to start it 4 times then it dies completely Does anyone have an idea what this could be. it's a 2000 es 300 with 97,xxx miles I took batery out had it charged battery it's fine.

JSM1284

Starter must be bad if the battery is good

kef300

I went to advanced auto parts to check my starter, they weren't any help.

JSM1284

Did you take your starter off and take it there?

kef300

I did not. LOL! I was not aware I needed to do so. That's why one of the guys looked at me like I drop kicked his dog when I said I didn't take it off

Yaj95ES300

^^^^Lol ^^^^

Sash

lmfao . . good luck bro

LEX ES300

This happened to me and in my case it was because of the battery. I thought my battery was fine too, I fully charged it and I just managed to get it started. I took it to a specialst the battery store and they said my battery was really on it's way out - had one dead cell and was holding very poor charge.

I bought a brand new battery and no problems ever since.

Now I'm not saying that in your case it's definately the battery, but I would suggest having your battery professionally tested.

LEX ES300

csaxon

^^^What he said. You have a defective battery.

lexusk8

Starters don't typically go out in the '00-'01 ES, so like others have mentioned I would first go and get the battery checked out. At least that's a lot easier than diagnosing the starter. Are you currently on the factory battery? If so it's probably due time to get it changed since it's almost 8 years old.

kef300

Ok, I just wanna make sure I got little kids can't have them in the cold. Where is there a battery expert store some names please.

llcoolpass

my car is 1993, with 140K miles. original starter is perfect.

TORTOISE

Where thos pics at man?

kef300

This starting problem got my mind wrapped up right now.

kef300

So my car has been at Toyota since 8 am, they call tell me my vehicle is fine all electrical is perfect battery, alternator, starter all in tip top. but they come back telling me my valve covers are leaking . $600 bucks da#$ it's always something.

They explained the problem starting as I probably left an excessory on I can dig it I got a 7 year old at home she could've left my door cracked but why would the car act up more than once.Is it because the battery wasn't fully charged the first time?