No start issue

[cchase]

I am trying to help a family member out and just trying to do some background research preliminarily.

He has a 2004 Chevy K1500 with the 5.3L engine. Yesterday he had it idling parked at the side of the road after having driven it for a while. The radio apparently started losing the station signal, followed by the gauge cluster dying. Prior to this, no lights had illuminated on the dash warning of anything. He shut the truck off (it was still running) and when he went to restart, it would not start. He got a jump from someone and the truck started up and operated properly for the remainder of the evening.

Any early guesses?

 

[chubbs1]

Cold, Battery may be on it's way out. Or they ran into a electro magnetic dead zone/twilight zone.

 

[CourierDriver]

Originally Posted By: cchase
I am trying to help a family member out and just trying to do some background research preliminarily.

He has a 2004 Chevy K1500 with the 5.3L engine. Yesterday he had it idling parked at the side of the road after having driven it for a while. The radio apparently started losing the station signal, followed by the gauge cluster dying. Prior to this, no lights had illuminated on the dash warning of anything. He shut the truck off (it was still running) and when he went to restart, it would not start. He got a jump from someone and the truck started up and operated properly for the remainder of the evening.

Any early guesses?
take it down to autozone and hve one of their geniuses put the tester on it,,,it will tell u what is going on with the battery or alternator,,,ps, clean ur terminals to on the battery post,,that causes a lot of problems.

 

[Jimmy9190]

Originally Posted By: chubbs1
Cold, Battery may be on it's way out. Or they ran into a electro magnetic dead zone/twilight zone.


+1

Bad cell in the battery. AZ or AAP can do a free load-test the battery and check the alternator output too.

 

[tinmanSC]

Sounds like a power issue. Either it's something simple but hard to track down, like poor grounding (which seems unlikely given that it happened while he was just sitting in a parking lot), or easy to track down but costs money like battery or alternator (this seems far more likely). My money is on battery.

 

[bullwinkle]

If it has stud-mount battery terminals-probably a bad battery connection. Although if the battery is original it may also be bad.

 

[cchase]

Thanks for the suggestions. My immediate thought was the battery.

For records sake I'll update this once the problem has been tackled.