My Solara has been driving me nuts

by **Coconut** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 3:18 pm

Howdy,

My car stopped today and would not start. This is the 4th time within 2 years. It will only start for a few seconds when I unplug the battery cable, then plug it back in. When it stops, the oil light and left rear flasher light remain on. The car has 85K miles and it's a V6. The technician has told me that it may require a computer chip/part change, which cost over US $900 at the dealer. Has anyone experienced this problem before?

Appreciate your input.

by **Mole** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 5:07 pm

whats your driving style?

what previous maintenance have you had?

Website · by **Turbosolara** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:40 pm

Is the car salvagetitle? Do you have alot of white deposit arond the battery? sounds like you have mess up electrical problem

by **Vi3tT3kNiqz** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 9:36 am

the same thing happened to me. My car wouldn't start. So i cleaned up the batter terminals and used some protective stuff to spray on it. THEn I screwed it up really tightly. And voila, it's been working till now. I dont know if that will fix ur problem, but yea.

by **99SEAUTO** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 6:29 am

i changed my battery 2 weeks ago and i get the same problem, every few days the car wont start, i have to take the positvie terminal off and put it back on, no idea whats causing it, and i also get an idle hesitation all started after a battery change

by **pythonjosh** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:05 pm

Do you guys have good batteries? Or just cheap ones that work? I had a problem with my battery holding a charge when I bought the car from a Nissan dealer. Battery died within a week, bastards. Bumper to bumper warrantee my a$$. Anyways, I swapped it with an Optima Yellowtop Gel battery, added a couple more ground wires to various places, and never a problem again. Spent a good $200 on that battery too. And if it's not the battery, then it's the starter. Those are just about the only 2 factors to get the engine to turn over.
Josh

by **HKSV6SLE** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 5:18 pm

i got 103k miles now and running on an optima mega tron plus battery no problems :drinking:

Website · by **Turbosolara** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 8:11 pm

does your alarm system has ignition kill? i suddenly remeber my old neon had similar problem, and then we found out it was the POS alarm mess up and continuing kill my ignition

by **adam2562** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:06 am

to me if all electrical works.. check ur injectors.. apparently latelky injectors have been a problem on our cars.. i've seenthem come in ata toyota .. i'vce changed my plugs and ignition coils.. and it still does it.. so i'm getting injectors

by **Masshole** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:17 pm

the engine will still turn over with bad injectors though... if it's not turning over at all then it's either electrical or the starter. Bad grounds can cause strange problems... make sure the ground strap has good clean metal contact.

However it does sound like the computer is disabling your ignition for some reason... could be a computer glitch like the tech said...

GOOD LUCK!

by **importtuner2oo4** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:53 pm

try cleaning ur battery terminals because many times carbon builds up...i know this has happened a few times on my daily driver, not my solara.... but it was resolved by cleaning my terminals.

by **geminimouse** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:40 am

99SEAUTO wrote:i changed my battery 2 weeks ago and i get the same problem, every few days the car wont start, i have to take the positvie terminal off and put it back on, no idea whats causing it, and i also get an idle hesitation all started after a battery change

it's safer to disconnect the negative. I've had this starting problem before, i just installed a new starter and it was fine.

by **Elfumador** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:40 pm

get a optima thats what I have and no problems, if you have acid on the terminals try some baking soda and water that should help

My Solara has been driving me nuts

My Solara has been driving me nuts

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