Last night I pulled into a 7-11 and turned the car off, grabbed some smokes and came back outside. Tried to start the car, and nothing. I have current, and there is a clicking sound coming from the starter....bad solenoid/dead starter? Car was running absolutely fine until this.

I am 99% sure that it is the starter although some verification would be appreciated. The starter is possibly OEM, however, I am not sure if it has been replaced or not. I went through the paperwork I got from the guy who had the car before me and it does not appear that it was ever replaced.


Any ideas?

 

dead battery

 

yeah, double check the battery terminals for a loose cable or corrosion.

 

Wow, yea check your terminals my other 92 would do that (I guess from age) and I ended up buying a new positive cable and it never did it again.

 

I have the same problem right now i Check ground and positive cables they seem ok but i think starter is shot

 

Battery is brand new (2 days old)....
Ok, so I took the starter off and took it to the auto parts store and had them do a check and it is still good and strong.....so I went back to the car and checked all the fuses and ground wires and saw that the ground from the side of the strut mount to the motor mount was good and loose....

I was able to tighten down the bolt and re-shape the wire so that it had good continuity....

Car runs like a champ once again.

 

Its ot the starter jus replaced it what could it be?

 

All righty well I was workin on it today,
when I asked my girlfriend to start it the throttle body cable started gettin hot then the little plastic was burning and still did the clicking noise and didt start could some wires be mixed up or something?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JDMbullshit &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> the throttle body cable started gettin hot then the little plastic was burning</TD></TR></TABLE>

Sounds like you've got a short.

 

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Sounds like you've got a short.</TD></TR></TABLE>


Yeah double and triple check your grounds....even if you think are secure check 'em again. all I ended up with was a loose wire....

 

Do you mind posting a picture of the ground wire? I don't recall any ground wire going from the strut mount to an engine mount and my car starts up fine?

 

I think it is a short but i cant find it and how its related to a the throttle cable?

 

will try to snap a pic tonight and post for you....

 

I checked them all but cant find the short I started a fire after contineuosly trying to start it just this plastic thing but this really sucks ***!

 

Generally speaking, your prelude isn't supposed to catch fire when you start it...

Ok first...does it get hot just when you try and start it or is it whenever the key is on? What is this "plastic thing" exactly that is getting hot. Obviously it's seeing too much current. The short is most likely upstream of it.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by fish stick &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Do you mind posting a picture of the ground wire? I don't recall any ground wire going from the strut mount to an engine mount and my car starts up fine?</TD></TR></TABLE>it's on the driver side.

 

Well it gets hot when i try to start it anything plastic that was attached to the throttle body cable got hot and started melting

what do you mean "The short is most likely upstream of it"