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mike-777 Jul 9, 2002 07:26 AM

Car won't start - Who else is having this problem
 
My 2k SE on occasion does nothing when the key is turned over. No clicking, just silence. On the 4th or 5th try it will start normally. Lately it has taken many trys to get it to light and putting it into nuetral seems to help.

Anyone else experienceing this and knows what the problem might be? I've reported it to my deater to get it in their system if something should fail when the car is out of warantee.

Maxima06071 Jul 16, 2002 07:10 PM

Re: Car won't start - Who else is having this problem
 

Originally posted by mike-777
My 2k SE on occasion does nothing when the key is turned over. No clicking, just silence. On the 4th or 5th try it will start normally. Lately it has taken many trys to get it to light and putting it into nuetral seems to help.

Anyone else experienceing this and knows what the problem might be? I've reported it to my deater to get it in their system if something should fail when the car is out of warantee.

Me! My mom just called me up(cause I'm in CT right now) and told me the Maxima won't start!? I'm like what happened? and she said that she can't even turn the key. and when she locks\unlocks it the horn and rear lights don't blink! but the security light is blinking. So can some one help me out, cause I have no funking clue whats wrong.

MaximaZero Jul 16, 2002 07:18 PM

Re: Re: Car won't start - Who else is having this problem
 

My 2k SE on occasion does nothing when the key is turned over. No clicking, just silence. On the 4th or 5th try it will start normally. Lately it has taken many trys to get it to light and putting it into nuetral seems to help.

Anyone else experienceing this and knows what the problem might be? I've reported it to my deater to get it in their system if something should fail when the car is out of warantee.

it wont start on the first try every so often. it's been like that since i got the car. seems like many people have this problem, but your case sounds pretty bad.


Me! My mom just called me up(cause I'm in CT right now) and told me the Maxima won't start!? I'm like what happened? and she said that she can't even turn the key. and when she locks\unlocks it the horn and rear lights don't blink! but the security light is blinking. So can some one help me out, cause I have no funking clue whats wrong.
steering lock maybe? if her steering is indeed locked, tell her to turn the steering wheel while trying to turn the key.

victor Jul 16, 2002 07:22 PM

Maxima06071,
maybe the battery is dead.

mike-777,
have you checked the water levels in the battery? the factory maxima battery needs maintenance.

KaxMaxSEAE Jul 16, 2002 09:58 PM

Re: Car won't start - Who else is having this problem
 

Originally posted by mike-777
My 2k SE on occasion does nothing when the key is turned over. No clicking, just silence. On the 4th or 5th try it will start normally. Lately it has taken many trys to get it to light and putting it into nuetral seems to help.

Anyone else experienceing this and knows what the problem might be? I've reported it to my deater to get it in their system if something should fail when the car is out of warantee.

Here's a long shot.

You don't have another transponder on your key ring, do you?

Maxima06071 Jul 19, 2002 11:03 PM


Originally posted by victor
Maxima06071,
maybe the battery is dead.

mike-777,
have you checked the water levels in the battery? the factory maxima battery needs maintenance.

Just got back today and yeah MaximaZero was right, the steering lock was on.
Thanks Y'all.

8702 Jul 20, 2002 03:23 AM

Re: Car won't start - Who else is having this problem
 

Originally posted by mike-777
My 2k SE on occasion does nothing when the key is turned over. No clicking, just silence. On the 4th or 5th try it will start normally. Lately it has taken many trys to get it to light and putting it into nuetral seems to help.

Anyone else experienceing this and knows what the problem might be? I've reported it to my deater to get it in their system if something should fail when the car is out of warantee.

My dad's old 2nd gen used to have this problem. There was an easy fix to this: we used to just mess with the shifter pushing forward while it was in PARK. I'm guessing the car thinks it's not fully engaged into park so just give it a little push forward and then try to start. It worked all the time for our old 2nd gen.

Myrv Jul 20, 2002 02:35 PM

Assuming you have an automatic it's probably the switch in the shifter that detects whether the car is in park or not. There was a thread about this before. Here's a post that gives a fairly reproduceable test so you can show it to the dealer and get them to fix it (hopefully under warranty).

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.... #post1106627

Myrv


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