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  • Member For: 20y 14d

It sounds like battery...you need to check the voltage while cranking...when my battery was gone I had no symptoms what so ever even headlights worked fine but car could didnt kick over at all...just the last time I whent to start it before it went dead the starter motor made a noise so I was convinced it was the starter motor...and I had a an Optima Deep Cycle battery on my car which are supposed to be the best on the market...so I ended up checking everything because I just assumed the battery was fine...DEFINATELY CHANGE THE BATTERY...this is most likely your problem...

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  • Member For: 15y 8m 14d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Newcastle

Don;t a multimeter as such to measure the battery, turn the headlights on and try to start it.. the headlights should only dim a little, more then that and you got a crook or flat battery..

If battery is all good then you'll need to put a testlight or the like on the startermotor and see if it is getting the positive from the ignition..

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  • Member For: 19y 26d
  • Location: Melbourne

1) Check in our main fusebox under the hood, in front of the water-reservoir, if the main fuses to starter motor and the relay itself is in working order.

2) If items in 1 is good, secondly g buy a cheap digital voltmeter, Dick Smith's or such a place, and measure voltage with ignition off. Should be over 12.5V or thereabouts. If this is the case, turn the ignition to on. Should not really drop to lower than this.

3) If the voltage in item 2 is ok, I suspect starter-motor/cabling loose/faulty et al.

Post back what you observe in the points mentioned above.

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