HELP please soon!

ok whats going on is i go to start the car and when i turn the key on the volts are high enough to start but when i try it drops to zero and nothing comes on tried to jump it but it didn't work it does the same thing HELP u guys:frown:

first, find a place to host your pic on the internet so it will show in your sig. second, does it click or make any noise(fuel pump priming) when you try and start it?

when it has that power the fuel pump does prime but when i turn the key the rest of the way it clicks and the volts drop to zero

Battery.

it started earlier fine woulda battery do that?

cant be the battery because she tried jumping it and it wouldnt start. Unless she jumped it wrong....which of course is unlikely... :)

what do u think it is

what does it do when you jump it? does it turn over at all?

No most of the time it stayed at zero but once or twice it had the power to start but it would just click when i tried to start it then drop back to zero and would stay there:banghead:

maybe her altanator is going? mines did something like that before it went out

i think i agree wit Luos. the battery might be low on its electrolyte. If so, jumping wont do a dayum thing and u need a new one. when was the battery bought?

wouldn't it show a little bit of power? also when we try to jump it it doesn't draw off the other car it did twice and itwould show power but it still wouldn't start..help u guys i have a doctors appointment to see if i need surgery on my knee:frown:

do this, the car you are jumping it from, take the battery out of it real quick and bolt it up to yours and see if it is your battery or not.

Remove battery.
Take it to a local auto parts place. AutoZone/Checker/etc.

Have them test it.

^ or do that.

but she probly don't want to, remeber her knee hurts,lol

If you have a multimeter check to see if the battery has 12 volts. If it does then check to see if you can get 12 volts from the battery's + terminal to the engine block - . If there is 12 volts all around then you could still have a bad battery cable that is not getting enough amps to start. You can check that if the multimeter has a setting for closed and open circuits.

my car has the sideposts and the honda has top posts.....damn hondas

Well then, she can keep trying to figure out why her battery is dead.

Either that...there is suddenly a serious ground issue. But I doubt that.
Can't normally jump a completely dead battery.
Dead battery won't hold a charge. This sounds exactly like the problem with the T/A after sitting for a couple months. No charge....even after charging it. Would have enough power to run interior lights for a few...even turn the car over a little. But it was turning over too slow to start.

i'm gonna go ahead and take it to autozone tomorrow

Do you have a charger you can put on it overnight?

If so, try that. See if that helps.
If not...good luck with it tomorrow.

no i don't have one wish i did though:frown:

I doubt it would help, but it would have been worth the try.

well talked to wal-mart and there going to replace it for free..the battery came with the car so it does need to be replaced

i think you have loose and/or corroded cables

i made sure theconnections are good

the cables could be corroded within the insulation, it happened to me. just don't wanna see you buy a new battery and it still not work.

thank u guys it was the battery.....but as i was driving a friends honda a hose split and it lost all the water......i hate hondas!!lol

it was the battery.
:wink:

damn it curtis, you are always right.

Only because I have broken everything at least once. :lol:

no he's not, I AM DAMNIT!

no he's not, I AM DAMNIT!
lol....yeah and by the way i do have to have knee surgery:frown:

lol....yeah and by the way i do have to have knee surgery:frown:
Probly from hitting the gas pedal to hard,lol