Hi Guys,

My car wouldn't start the other day after I drove it for about 15 min. No click - nothing! So I did some research about VATS and the starter circuit on here.

I've replaced the Neutral Safety switch and tonight I bypassed the Starter Enable Relay. Also, VATS has been turned off in the chip. The car cranks and starts just fine when cold. I turned it on & off many, many times testing it.

However, once it gets up to temperature, I turn it off and try to restart it and NOTHING! No click or anything. I've done some searching on here and it sounds like a failed starter/solenoid would cause this? I put an Autzone remaned one on about 2 years ago but I guess it's toast?

I did purchase a new ignition switch for under the steering column but haven't put it on yet. Any advice on this?

Thanks!

 

Try jumping the starter directly off the battery when it does this. You need a 3ft piece of 10ga wire ... touch one end to battery pos and other end to starter terminal where the purple wire connects - if starter turns with no issue, then it's not the starter or solenoid but another issue.

 

Thanks camaronewbie! I will give that a shot.

Last night, I replaced the Ignition Switch. What a HUGE PITA that was! It seemed to start better after that but I will have to do more testing tonight.