MoparDSM
15+ Year Contributor
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- Jun 15, 2007
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Stafford Springs,
Connecticut
Just bought this car recently and the seller told me that it had problems starting but gave me a couple of methods to use to start it.
One was to put the car in ACC and as soon as you heard the relay behind the radio click to rapidly switch the key to on. This worked when I tried it. The other method was to put in on ACC and almost immediately switch it to on, which also worked despite being a bit tricky to do.
When I got it home and tried to start it (after successfully starting it 4 or 5 times) I stopped hearing the click behind the radio. Now I can only get it to start after about 4 times of the ACC-ON method and when I do that it makes that electrical buzz kind of like when you try to start a car that is already started or start a car with a dead battery. So sometimes using this method I get nothing, buzzing, or it starts.
Does this sound like an issue with that relay, a wiring problem, or something completely different like an issue with the ECU? Any help is appreciated, thanks!
One was to put the car in ACC and as soon as you heard the relay behind the radio click to rapidly switch the key to on. This worked when I tried it. The other method was to put in on ACC and almost immediately switch it to on, which also worked despite being a bit tricky to do.
When I got it home and tried to start it (after successfully starting it 4 or 5 times) I stopped hearing the click behind the radio. Now I can only get it to start after about 4 times of the ACC-ON method and when I do that it makes that electrical buzz kind of like when you try to start a car that is already started or start a car with a dead battery. So sometimes using this method I get nothing, buzzing, or it starts.
Does this sound like an issue with that relay, a wiring problem, or something completely different like an issue with the ECU? Any help is appreciated, thanks!
