Drove the car to soccer last night and then to a bar about 20 blocks away. Was there about 1.5 hours.

When I tried to start- nothing hapended!
Not even a click!!!! Battery had full power.

Had the car towed to my garage. It fired right up for them the next day- they failed to diagnose the problem.

Any ideas???

 

Do you have the VATS?

 

no he has an 87, VATS didnt come till 89

 

the solenoid on your starter is heating up and not cranking i had the same problem and replaced the starter. or you can get a stater heat shield that might fix it i'm not sure.

 

thanks for the replys- but how could the soleniod be heating up when the car was fairly cold?

Ice- your car had no "click" either?

 

Sometimes if the shifter isn't fully in park, things like this happen.

 

yeah I thought of that too- so I put in and out of park serveral times, also tried nuetral

 

yeah there was no click on my car too. it seemed like the battery didn't have enough juice to turn the starter but after about a half hour or sometimes longer it would suprise me and start right up like nothing happened.


p.s. the starter solenoid is only a couple inches from the engine block.