92 Cierra starting problems.

[rjstang]

Ok so I dd a 92 oldsmobile cutlass ciera 3.3L. Very reliable except for the fact that it will refuse to start at random times. Now if I zap that battery with another car it will start again immediatly. When I try to start it and it doesn't start there is no sort of cranking at all. I just hear a buzz. Once it starts with a jump its fine, no sort of charging issues. I have had the battery checked, the alternator and starter checked and my mechanic still has no idea. I even checked out the fuses to see if anything was burnt out but still I have no idea. I had the alarm disconnected cause i thought that maybe there was a cut off screwing me up. Sometimes it will even start up again by itself after 5 minutes without a jump. Other times I will have to leave it for a few hours. And even after a few hours its a delayed start, I will turn the key and it may take an extra second or two for it to start. Anybody have any advise of other things I should look into? Maybe someone else had a similar problem? Thanks!

[caddyman379]

Check that the battery cables and terminals are tight and corrision free. But I would replace positive and negative cables anyway since their cheap, and since it will start with a jump it makes me think that it's quite possibly your problem.

Sometimes, the cables can also rust inside the insulation where you would never see it.

How many miles?

[rjstang]

Hey thanks for the reply. At the moment the car has 145K, I bought it off a friend about a year and a half ago (it had 121K) and he had put a new die hard battery in a few months before he had stopped using it. Im not quite sure if they had replaced the battery cables or not. But I will def look into that, thanks.