The car is a 00 si, today it started acting up. It would not start, at first it would crank slowly and the starter would click really fast but now it will not even crank the starter spins really fast though. Which means the starter is bad, nothing to worry about there. Here comes the odd part, I took the battery cables off to clean them and when I put them back on everything is acting weird. The radio works but turns off when you turn it up, the lights on the cluster come on, there dim an they flicker. I traced the clicking noise from the fuse box under the hood, it turned out to be the a/c relay. I took it out and put it back in . Now the radio is still the same but the clicking sounds went away. I tested the battery and it had 12 volts. I also checked the main fuses and there all good. Seems like nothing is getting full power, I cleaned the grounds and it seemed to help a little but its nothing like the way it should be. Is there any type of relays that would need to be reset or anything like that ? How often does the main relay go bad on such a new car ? Also I thought the car was not starting because of a dead battery, but I am getting 12 volts to the starter, its just weird these 2 problems happened at the same time. Does anyone know how many volts it takes to at least attempt to crank a car ?

 

when all these problems are happening is the car running?

 

Nope, car will not start because of the starter.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 90blackcrx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Nope, car will not start because of the starter. </TD></TR></TABLE>
Have you tried charging the battery or jump starting it?

 

that is my next suggestion
dont focus on the starter 100%, have the battery tested first.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Kamin &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">that is my next suggestion
dont focus on the starter 100%, have the battery tested first.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I am not ruling out the battery. I am gonna try another battery and see what happens. The battery is putting out 12 volts though. Also another weird thing that was happening, when you turn the key to the accessories position, the a/c pump makes weird clicking noise. Thanks for all the help so far.

 

well it may be at 12 volts with no load but on a load (like starting) it could drop almost to 0

 

Well after a little work, turned out to be the battery. It was reading 12 volts just sitting there then it went to 9 when cranking. I swapped in a battery and it fixed it right up. Thanks for all the help, anyone still have any ideas on how the battery could show good signs but still not work.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 90blackcrx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">anyone still have any ideas on how the battery could show good signs but still not work.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Showing 12.0 volts on a fully charged battery isn't good.