Help Please, car won't start

[drugzalots]

Hi all, we have a 89 Camaro RS. It will not start. You can turn the key on and the lights will work, but it will not turn over. No noise at all. Nothing.

Husband has taken off the starter and it is okay. He is totally stumped on this one.

Any ideas please. Thanks, Angela

[tarbash]

Originally Posted by drugzalots

Hi all, we have a 89 Camaro RS. It will not start. You can turn the key on and the lights will work, but it will not turn over. No noise at all. Nothing.

Husband has taken off the starter and it is okay. He is totally stumped on this one.

Any ideas please. Thanks, Angela

Are you sure that the starter/solenoid is fine? If so, then it could be low battery power, a bad fusible link, ignition switch, neutral safety switch, or a problem with the VATS (vehicle anti-theft system)

[Morley]

VATS. Turn the key on and see if the "security" light is on, if it is it should go out in a few seconds...if it doesn't VATS is acting up.
Now if the security light never comes on, the bulb is burned out or someone removed it. Get it working then go to step one.

[drugzalots]

Hi, thanks for you replys. The thing is with this car is it has a new sterring colum. (someone tried to steal it so we replaced all that) So we had to bypass the vats.

Someone on here said to stick paper inbetween this thing on the vats and it would bypass it. As we had a new key without a chip and a different ignition.

Everything was working fine till the other night. We had to tow it home. He can not find what is wrong with it. And he was mad and messed up that paper thing.

Is there anyway to put the chip from old key in vats and make it work?

Thanks for your answers, Angela

[Morley]

Originally Posted by drugzalots

Is there anyway to put the chip from old key in vats and make it work?

Thanks for your answers, Angela

Even better would be to get an ohm meter and check the resistance of the chip in the old key. Then go to Radio Shack and get a resistor of the same value or as close as you can. Then put the resistor in the wiring for the key "reader", the thing in the column that the key's chip touched.
This will make the VATS module happy as far as the right resistance and htinking it has th eright key.
Now, if after all of that the car still won't start...Behind the driver's kick panel (drivers LH foot) there is a relay, this is the starter enable relay that VATS energizes to allow the starter to get power. It may be bad, go ahead and replace it.

[drugzalots]

Thank you so very much for your imput. He got the beast going again....and it was the vats. Thanks, Angela