Help No Start
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Le Mans Master
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St. Jude Donor '11
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Help No Start
I think it may just be a battery, but wanted a few other opinions. I started the car up earlier to set it in the middle of the garage to do a little cleaning of the interior. I noticed that it seemed a little slow on the cranking but did start OK. When I went to restart it to put in back on the side of the garage where it is normally it did not start at all. Just the dreaded clicking. So I attached my battery charger and let it run until it showed it was fully charged. Nothing. In fact it started clicking and even after I let go of the start button it continued to click for a few seconds. Now if I try to start it, I get No Fob Detected, and I have to pull the lease handle to get out.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
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St. Jude Donor '09
I think it may just be a battery, but wanted a few other opinions. I started the car up earlier to set it in the middle of the garage to do a little cleaning of the interior. I noticed that it seemed a little slow on the cranking but did start OK. When I went to restart it to put in back on the side of the garage where it is normally it did not start at all. Just the dreaded clicking. So I attached my battery charger and let it run until it showed it was fully charged. Nothing. In fact it started clicking and even after I let go of the start button it continued to click for a few seconds. Now if I try to start it, I get No Fob Detected, and I have to pull the lease handle to get out.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
I had a C5 that was a year old when I bought it. Most of the time it started just fine. But on occasion, I'd turn the key and it would do absolutely nothing. Lights, etc., worked well.
Finally, the battery died. It was fine one evening when I put it in the garage but the next day nothing worked at all. Couldn't even unlock the doors.
Got a new Optima and it solved all the problems ... it never once refused to start. So Corvettes are apparently really fickle when it comes to batteries.
If the battery is very old, and if your car is out of warranty, it would probably be cheaper to just get a new battery than it would be to take it into the dealer and pay them to chase the problem. At least it might be a relatively inexpensive fix.
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Remove and clean the terminals and see what happens, but it sounds like the battery went bad. Take it out and to an auto parts store for a load test and my bet is it fails.
If it's clicking when you push the Start button it has nothing to do with the FOB battery. Putting it in the glove box slot won't help.
If it's clicking when you push the Start button it has nothing to do with the FOB battery. Putting it in the glove box slot won't help.
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St. Jude Donor '11
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Sorry, I should have added that. The car is an '07, but I have only had it just over a year, so I have no idea how old the battery is, but it is a Florida car.so I doubt it is the original battery. Down here 3 years is a good life expectancy for batteries. It is an AC Delco but as I say it is way to clean looking to be the original.
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St. Jude Donor '11
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Thanks everyone, I was leaning toward the bad battery issue, just waiting for my son to stop by so we can run the battery over to the parts store to have it checked.
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It sounds like you deeply-discharged your battery, although it would be tough for anyone to diagnose a battery issue without at least some basic information, like the battery's voltage level. If the car barely started when you first moved it, the voltage was probably borderline to begin with. The energy your car consumed during starting was probably not replaced in the brief amount of time the engine was running to re-position the car in the garage. Once you moved the car, you then proceeded to clean the interior? Does that mean you left the car doors open while you were cleaning, possibly further discharging the battery? What is the voltage of the battery? If the battery is deeply-discharged, the auto parts store should first attempt to fully-charge the battery before load-testing it.
Jim McIlvaine
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This will answer your question.
>> No FOB Detected checklist <<
Sounds like the car battery is toast.
Elmer
>> No FOB Detected checklist <<
Sounds like the car battery is toast.
Elmer
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St. Jude Donor '11
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It sounds like you deeply-discharged your battery, although it would be tough for anyone to diagnose a battery issue without at least some basic information, like the battery's voltage level. If the car barely started when you first moved it, the voltage was probably borderline to begin with. The energy your car consumed during starting was probably not replaced in the brief amount of time the engine was running to re-position the car in the garage. Once you moved the car, you then proceeded to clean the interior? Does that mean you left the car doors open while you were cleaning, possibly further discharging the battery? What is the voltage of the battery? If the battery is deeply-discharged, the auto parts store should first attempt to fully-charge the battery before load-testing it.
Jim McIlvaine
eCare Manager, OPTIMA Batteries, Inc.
www.pinterest.com/optimabatteries
Jim McIlvaine
eCare Manager, OPTIMA Batteries, Inc.
www.pinterest.com/optimabatteries
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You may want to read this Hot Rod article for some background about your new Optima battery. If your Red Top gets discharged, you may not be able to charge it back up if you have an older style battery charger. This is good info to know because even a lot of shops that sell Optimas don't understand them.
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Do you have the correct cone-shaped nuts on the battery clamps?
Regular nuts will allow the OEM cam-clamp to loosen... it would behave like a battery problem.
http://www.ls2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=846931
Regular nuts will allow the OEM cam-clamp to loosen... it would behave like a battery problem.
http://www.ls2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=846931
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Might be a damaged post on the starter solenoid! 
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-t...oid-cable.html
From another thread:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-c...ont-start.html
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-t...oid-cable.html
From another thread:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-c...ont-start.html
