No Crank, Click, No Start (the Click Clique?)

When you say behind the AC, is it as simple as pulling the controls? I have an aftermarket head unit in there and can take all that apart and put it back together in about 30 seconds...

 

No, that's easy, it's behind the actual ac unit. The whole dash and AC unit gotta come out first.

 

That seems slightly crazy to have to dig through that. Was there an actual problem with it when you got there? I would expect some oxidation as you show in the pictures, but does it/did it affect the startup?

 

Its my family car atm, so haven't pulled anything besides surface level. If it ever breaks down or acquire a 2nd family vehicle, I'll go all in, but its working as it should

 

Just put the battery back in - same no start condition.

Just making 100% sure - I watched a video where he tested the delay two ways: with it removed and jumping from the middle (12v) to the right (the larger blades), and then with the relay partially installed and applying power to the back left (smaller, silver) blade. I'm going off memory that I did the first, but do I need to do it both ways? I don't have a power probe like in the video.

 

You talking about jumping the relay??
I've do e it, but I don't remember which teeth.

 

Yeah. I was messing around with it a bit, pulled the relay and replaced it. Click. Pulled the battery. Cleaned off the ground wire at the fender, which was pretty clean to begin with, I mostly just scraped it a bit where it touches the metal. Threw my multimeter on to remote start it and check the voltage drop.

Vroom. Starts right up. =|

Let it run for a couple of minutes. Backed it into the driveway so it's on the concrete, not the gravel. Shut it off. Started again, no problem. Well...WTF

 

Yep, until next time. I go through this periodically. More in the summer. Some solder, or wire somewhere getting heat soaked and swells and loses contact.. very similar to the aux port.. I lose audio on the driver side since solders are broken. Have resoldered, but it's an ongoing loop.