It's automatic and has 155K miles, battery is ~2 months old from Costco - interstate one.
Resting voltage of battery is 12.6-12.65V. It was running fine until past weekend and was parked for almost 4-5 days.
Today I went to start and it's not starting. While cranking battery light on the ODO stays on. Could it be an alternator or a starter? It does have fuel.
Thank you for any of your help.
2008 Civic LX Sedan not starting
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If it starts with a jump and the voltage is less than 14 (running), probably the alternator. If it won't jump, probably the starter
Try jumping it and if that doesn't work, it's probably the starter perhaps. Any noises like the starter trying to engage/spin?
I'll try to jump it in a bit. It does make a noise when I try to crank, but it's not a powerful one, like maybe starter sound is missing from it?
I'll go ahead and do it. How much should be the voltage while cranking or with headlights on?
P.S: What could be symptoms of bad fuel pump?
Originally Posted By: maverickfhs
I'll go ahead and do it. How much should be the voltage while cranking or with headlights on?
Is it cranking normally and just not starting? If so, the battery and the starter are fine and you're likely just missing spark or fuel. If it's not cranking normally, then you probably have a battery or starter problem.
I don't think it's cracking normally since sound of cranking is kind of faint.
Fuel is there, almost 1/4 of the tank and will check on spark too.
Originally Posted By: exranger06
Is it cranking normally and just not starting? If so, the battery and the starter are fine and you're likely just missing spark or fuel. If it's not cranking normally, then you probably have a battery or starter problem.
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Originally Posted By: maverickfhs
I'll go ahead and do it. How much should be the voltage while cranking or with headlights on?
Can you start it with a jump? If so what is the voltage (while running) at the battery posts?
I have not tried with a jump yet, going to do it in next 1 hour.
Originally Posted By: maverickfhs
So I turned headlights on and measured battery resting voltage, it was showing 12.05V. Then started to drop, say in 5-10 secs was dropping by 0.01V.
Is this normal?
Ok so I tested with a jumper cable from another car. No luck and same issue.
does it have compression? timing chain tensioner might've gone
I think gas was frozen, used throttle and finally it started. Woooho!!!
How cold is it? Might be a good idea to keep the tank more filled when not driving often to prevent condensation.
Maybe not hurt to dump a bottle of drygas in as well.
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