so i just bought my 2000 acura 3.2 tl like 3 weeks ago, it has a rebuilt trans wit 62k on it wit 165k on the body this mornin i go to get in my car starts like a champ forgot my cell in the house shut the car off came out to start it and....nothing it clicks when i turn the key all my lights work tried jumping it and nothing just the clicking noise seeing as how i cant move it i figured i would ask my fellow acura drivers then to bring it to someone who will break my pockets for a problem that maybe minor so anyone with any knowledge or feedback help please it would be greatly appreciated!!!!!

 

Sounds like a bad ignition switch.

Try putting the key in the ON position, and wiggling back and forth, as if you were going to start the car, but don't quite go all the way to the START position. If the dash lights flicker, you have a bad ignition switch.

 

Im going for:
get the battery tested! When you start the car it takes a huge amount of juice, then the alternator needs to be turning at cruising speed 15 minutes to recharge the battery full
If the battery was weak and you used it, didnt get to recharge -then a few minutes later asked it to do it again--click click click

Charge the battery up at home then drive an hour cruise to fully charge it
If no charger at home, remove battery and take to parts store for a free charge and testing
Using a jumper battery/cables and expecting the alternator to recharge a fully dead battery is going to shorten the alts life- it was meant to top off/ in use-recharge, not fully dead recharge
Take to parts store for a free test of the system

 

i second ignition switch, if your lights and all other electronics seem fine

 

Possibly starter or dirty battery terminals

 

I havent heard of any 00+ having switch issues. If its Clicking i dont think its a ignition. It sounds like a battery or starter issue.

 

its weird but on my 1st gen sometimes i gotta shift it into neutral and start it that way.. the same thing happens.

 

then you have a bad nuetral safety switch andrew

 

 

If your battery is the original acura one with 4-5 years on it- you did really well

Most batteries these days- in the hot, tight, low cooling airflow engine compartments are lucky to go 3,,, maybe 4 years

Proper cable and terminal end maitenance help, but cant overcome physics

 

Check BOTH ends of each batt. cable for tightness and corrosion. Def. get it charged & load tested. If it was the orig. Acura batt. it would be 9+ yrs. old- very unlikely.

 

did he leave the car in drive?

 

^You can't take the key out if it's in drive.

Edit: Actuallly, nvm, she didn't say whether or not she took the key out.

 

sounds like starter to me.

you can always bypass the starter/cylinoid? by taking two screwdrivers and touching both bolts on the starter and touching them together. it got me out of a sticky situation a couple times in my car.

sounds wierd when i explain it lol but its really easy.

 

Is a cylinoid like one of those flux capacitors type thingamajigs???

Haha, just messin....solenoid

 

When u were jumpstarting, what car did u jump start it with, if it has a smaller engine and if your battery is pretty dead then sometimes you have to leave the jumper cables attached for like 10 min. Just making sure u jump started it correctly

 

the FIRST thing you should check in this situation is the age and condition of the battery
Does it hold a charge, stand up under load and at 13.8 volts?

Anything past that,, is pure guesstimacationing~
and should be left to the parts store with a machine to test the system for you

 

put some air in the engine.


j/k..sounds like a starter issue to me as well.

 

i could only found out when i came back to my car and everything started except the engine....didnt hear anytin from the engine no crank nothing...god worried made som calls...try to figure out how much i need to spend now...and then i grab a drink to cool down and realize the car is in D5...


but i guess by now she wouldve figured that out..so i guess its not....wait but she hasnt been back??? one post ....

 

just like those people who ask what brakes to use or other problem and never respond to how our suggestions worked