Car will not Start

[locopr31]

Good Morning everyone and happy thanks giving. My 1999 c280 will not start. when I try nothing will happend, any sugestion.

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[Silver202]

Does it try to turn over? If not maybe it's a dead battery, the recent cold weather doesnt help battery situations.....Other than that I have no idea, but im sure someone here does!

[davis449]

You've pretty much got three possibilities: battery (most likely), alternator, or starter. Those are the three most common culprits of a no start. If you can crank barely but it won't turn over and after you do it a couple times it won't crank at all, it's probably the battery. If it doesn't crank, i.e. all you get a is a "click", at all it could be just a dead battery or the combination of a dead battery and dead alternator, i.e. it (the alternator) died while you were drving and your driving ran the battery dead. If it's an ugly "ccccckkkkkk" sound, it's probably the starter.

[locopr31]

It was at ninght when this happend, the lights work fine and all the electronics. So I don't think is the battery. When I turn the key all I hear is a click. I think is the starter. but I am not sure.

[stox]

Are the LED's flashing? If so, try locking and un-locking the car with the key fob.

[locopr31]

I have try un locking and locking the car. The lights work fine, everything seem to be normal except it doesn't due a thing when I turn the keys. Kind of weird. I ask my mechanic to take a look. But he is busy. Hopefully he will be able to do it later. But any sugestions will be appreciated.

[marksbenz]

try tapping the starter with a hammer see if your car will start. Always works...

[locopr31]

I did the tapping with the hammer that worked fine. My mechanic things is a loose wire. Hopefully that is the case. If not I will be spending around $200.00 for a new starter. :cry:

[locopr31]

Good Morning everyone:

The problem has been solve. It seems that there is a ground wire near the bottom front of the car that was broken. When my mechanic startet to check he realize ther was no ground in the car. So we started to look for a broken wire. We found it. It only took us 10 minutes to fix the car. Lucky me I didn't have to spend any $$$$$ fixing it. Thank you all for all the suggestions.

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[rollinrealbig]

also - i would like to add,

i had a problem with my 202 shutting off all the sudden, and also idle was poor.

but i found my problem, the battery terminals were corroded, all this white crap growing on them.

if you replace with gold plated terminals - helps your car, better MPG (slightly better) and car runs perfectly with no problems,

just a tip - clean your battery terminals every once in a while, also spray them with anti-corrosion spray.

good luck, hope this helps somebody.