GarrettSC

Went to go pick up my car from the shop and I get in to start it, put the key in and nothing at all. Ok so it must be a dead battery no problem. Go get my jumper pack and put it on all the lights come on then the alarm starts going off (in all the time I have had the car it has NEVER gone off) so I'm like wtf? and I turn the key to start to get it to turn off and the car doesn't start. So I had my friend wiggle the jumper cables and it cranks for like 1-2 seconds but doesn't start up. Then we try another jumper pack and this time the starter doesn't even crank over but you can hear stuff clicking under the hood. All the lights are
on in the dash. I turned the key to Start and most of the idiot lights on the dash went out but the coolan level light, abs, trac, rear tail light failure and low oil level light came on. Any one have ANY ideas as to what is wrong? I'm really lost as to what to do now.


Thanks in advance.

Xevuhtess7

You might have poor contact on your battery terminals when you're clipping your cables on. Are they really corroded?

It's normal for your alarm to go off and dash lights to do weird things when you jump or do stuff with the battery cables so don't worry about that.

Oh yeah and if you're picking it up from a shop.... why don't you go inside the shop and ask them whats up. I mean they're supposed to fix your car right? Haha

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iTrader: (17)

Why isn't this in the engine forum?

Moved: )

GarrettSC

It's a body shop. My terminals are brand new.

And I'm pretty sure this isn't "performance" it is just engine.

GarrettSC

YAY all fixed. The alarm kept arming itself so I just shut it off.