just bought a hatch, it was a stolen recovery. Car needed new igntion, so replaced ignition but the alarm that was in the car was keeping the lights and etc on. So I cut them out and i re-join the wires but the car wont start....any ideas?



see the two cut wires, when I join them car doesn't start and it was the only wire cut

heres another pick of the other wires

 

Anybody kno?????

 

When you turn the car on and crank, do you get spark?

 

yea, its was running till i cut the alarm out, now when you turn the key to start, nothing happens

 

when you took the alarm out did you reconnect the starter wire back together. it should be a black wire with a white stripe?

 

black/ yellow wire is ign . white/black wire is acc . yellow wire is ign2. what color is the cut wire???

 

You can just see the insulation of the cut wire on the right (starter blk/wht). Obviously it needs to be connected. Get rid of that scotch lock connector on the blk/yel wire. That connector is made for 14-16 ga. wire and you have it on a 12ga. not mention those things are junk in my opinion. I've done many a troubleshoot and found one of those connectors to be the problem on several occasions. You may also want to look up toward the top of the clutch pedal for the clutch interlock switch and make sure it hasn't been tapped into with a relay for a remote start system. Depending on how this was bypassed by the installer it could keep the car from starting with the alarm out of the system.

 

the wire thats cut is the blk & white one, i joined it but no luck, i'll look in to the clutch thing and get back to ya, thanks guys for the help. The car is a electrical mess i think the kid before try to do every thing his self and took the cheap route