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2001 Pontiac Sunfire Not Starting
I recently purchased almost immediately the car would not crank occasionally. A relative told me starter was fine that it was the wiring somewhere so proceeded to run a wire from the starter a to the positive battery terminal and this must be touched every time I want to start the car. Now he is MIA and car still has the wire to start. A few days ago, during a thunderstorm the car lost power steering and max overheated, it never died I shut off for a total of three times to limp it home. Upon inspection the serpentine belt had slipped off. I inspected all pullys and noticed the big bolt at the back of the a.c. compressor was missing and the compressor wiggled. I then put in a bolt and that made it sturdy again. Serpentine belt was reinstalled and tension felt tight. I then proceeded to start the car with my handy wire to positive terminal method and car will crank but not start. Also in the process of all of this my purse was stolen with my keys so a locksmith had to install a new ignition. Please help with any suggestions. Thanks in advance.
 
you obviously have a problem with the ignition circuit that was not helped with the jumper wire. Do you have a security warning light constantly?
 
When you say the car will not start do you mean the engine does not crank over or the engine cranks over and will not start up and run?
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Is the forum working well? I thought I posted my comment on texas' intro part; just fyi.
 
the OP posted multiple times about the same issue without waiting to be moderated so some threads were deleted to try and avoid repetition.
 
melsg5 said:
you obviously have a problem with the ignition circuit that was not helped with the jumper wire. Do you have a security warning light constantly?
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I figured out that starter relay was bad and replaced it. The security light is on but the ten min fix did not work. So no more jumper (yay) but the engine will still not turn iver.
 
EaOutlaw said:
When you say the car will not start do you mean the engine does not crank over or the engine cranks over and will not start up and run?
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The engine will crank and sounds like it wants to start BH it doesn't. When I asked the locksmith about the new ignition he stated that my car does not have the security bypass (its a base model 2 door coupe).
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