so i went to start my car this morning and it won't start. instead it makes this rapid clicking noise (i htink it may be the distributor) and sometimes the speedo needle will jump. i have no idea what's going on. andyone else have this problem? thanks in advance

-marc

 

rapid clicking noise usually means a bad/dead battery

 

the thing is though that everything else works in accessory position. my interior and instrument lights are all lit. i can hear my cd changer working and i'm able to flip up and down my monitor. i highly doubt that it's the batter cuz i can hear the clicking noise coming from under the hood. it's pretty loud. anybody have any ideas? thanks

also, anyone know why the speedo needle is jumping?

-marc

 

Bump because I have the same problem. Clicking and speedo jumping sometimes. It did this, it finally started once, now I can't get it to start again.

 

turns out my battery was bad cuz it had beed drained and recharged so many times. i guess eventually it stops putting out enough voltage to turn the starter. try jumping the batter, and if that works then your battery is bad so get a new battery. if that doesn't work, you may have a bad starter. good luck

 

just go over to autozone and have your batt. charged and tested. it's free

i just went thru the same **** the other day

 

My battery is new and is fully charged. I'm going to change the starter tomorrow with an extra I have...thank god for spare swap parts sitting around in boxes.

 

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yea usually when the needle jumps like that i guess it means yer battery's dead...haha had to find that out the hard way when i tried to push my **** to work.
i tohught it would go, but my battery died like 2 mins after i left.

 

I believe the clicking noise is made by a relay. It may very well have a real name, but I don't know it.

Cheers,
Roy

 

I'm having the same issue with my 2001 Civic lx motor blew out the block and recently swapped it out with a 2001 Civic lx 2-door it took me 2 days to unplug the original harness from the motor I just got out after 20 years and money is an issue I've learned everything from this site any ideas what could be wrong with it

 

My 2001 Civic lx is having the same issue but when I try to start it acc everything shuts down had the OBD2 scan tool plug in and it did the same thing as everything else I took out fuse #17 and everything went normal except for the aftermarket stereo it just blinks on and off all ground have been sanded and clean why☹️ I don't have any money so I'm doing everything myself

 

It’s probably the battery. I’ve had that happen bunches of times.