Re: Stranded

[Shawn C Meze <skerocdriver@juno.com>]

On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 17:16:20 -0500 Slink <slink1@jps.net> writes:
>Last night I drove my 85 rocco to pick up my friend for a night on the
>town.  When I got to his house. I took the engine off for a minute to
>put something in the trunk.  Now when I returned to start the engine I
>gets nothing. The engine would not rotate, for some reason I thought
>that it was the battery.  Seeing that we were in a rush we went in his
>prelude.  Now today I checked my battery and I'm getting a reading of
>11.56 also the battery is leaking.  I'm about to go to exchange my
>battery, but I would like to know if I'm tackling this problem correctly
>or if the problem lies somewhere else.


11.5V should crank the motor. Might be a little slow but still enough rpm
to start the car. 

So to me the problem would be getting power to the starter motor.
Ignition key switch could be the problem. Bad or loose + cable. (Check
it.) 
Also the little wire that plugs into the starter (Next to the + cable)
could be loose of fallen off completely. (Check that too.)
Otherwise, with the key on, just try and jump the + post on the starter
to the little male connector that the small wire plugs into. Use a
screwdriver should help unless you have a remote starter switch. Expect
sparks but don't be afraid. It it doesn't crank the starter then the
motor could be bad. Listen for the selenoid to make a "CLICK" sound. If
you only hear that, but no starter sounds, the starter motor is bad. 
Anyway, check it out and get back to us. HTH!!


              Shawn Meze
86' Jetta GLi           82' Scirocco GTi
The Fastest, Quickest, Cleanest and
best looking Scirocco in all of San Diego!
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