Infam0usMax

I need help asap...
Im on vacay and we to get something to eat got back in my car and I get just one click from the starter... and that's it car won't start...
Any reason why this is I hear my fuel pump alty is new and battery is new both have been working just fine...

Levsimus

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Now and again we get cars in for service at the joint I work at and I'll have similar issues when I got to pull a car out after a tire job or whatever, and it'll do this same thing. Electricals work, one click.

Replace the battery, and all is well again. Check your battery/ground/connections. New battery doesn't mean good battery!

More likely, if it IS the battery, it may be parasitic drains omewhere, leaving lights on or something.

Edit:

To clarify though, I'm certainly not ruling anything else out but always start with the simplest solution first. It could be the starter too, but I've had three cars do this with failing batteries, so thats where I'd start. Get the battery charged and tested to rule it out!

James92SE

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If you hear just one click from the starter and nothing else, 9 times out of 10 it's the starter itself. Not sure why you would look elsewhere first. Seems to be a textbook failed starter symptom

Infam0usMax

Call my dad up to come fix it, hes a mechanic
anyways... I went on what you guys said and took the starter out and took it to autozone and they tested it and it was fine... but i went a ahead a bought another one just because...

however it wasnt the stater like i said it was the positive cable that runs to the starter from the battery somehow when I would turn the key all the power thats suppose to go to the stater got cut off by some of metal block thats on the line ill post a picture of it 2marrow so everyone can see what im talking about...

went to the part store and they nolonger carry the whole positive cable for my car which is a 92 GXE... he sold me the negative side which i found funny and didnt want to tell the guy that was the wrong cable lol but yes it fixed now but that was the cause of it, it wasnt the starter itself

so if this helps anyone having this same problem make sure that 12+volts of whatever goes completely down that positive cable when you turn that key...