Alright well i'm new to the site so bare with me. Well i got in my car today and i turned the key and nothing. like absoulty nothing. Woudn't crank or anything, it was like i was turning the key for fun. But the odd part is i have power to everything, windows work, cd player, everything, i just can't start the car. I tried push starting the car and that woudn't work either. It would like start but barly run and then die after about 2 sec. Then all of a sudden about 10 min a later the car just started like normal and its fine now. The thing is it used to do this a lot last year and i thought i had a dead spot on the starter so i replaced the starter around july of last year and it has been fine until today. So i was wondering if any of you guys have any sort of an idea why it woudl do this. Any comments would be very helpful

 

it could be your ignition switch......if i remember correctly when mine went i still had power to all the acessories like you described.

 

Thx a lot i'll try to look at that tommarow morning in my auto class.

 

i would check your neutral safety switch. im guessing you have a manual. thats a little harder but on my car(when it was a manual) i would sometimes have to slam the clutch to the floor to get it to start. just a thought.

 

Another thing to watch when you attempt to start is the temperature gauge and dash warning lamps. If the temperature gauge does not go to full-scale, the crank circuit is not be closed by the switch. If you have a tilt steering column, try starting with the column tilted to the lowest position. This tends to take up slack in the ignition switch linkage.