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Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - sheppy1 - 7:th-Mar-2015
Help Guys!!! My car now won't start after installing the LEDs and door card, when I turn the key the car just make some awful noises (like the battery has died or something) and then it won't start!! It also spat the disc out of the disc tray for some reason :-/
Anyone any idea why this has happened?! Kind of need my car for work so I'm buggered it I can't get it working!
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - Rusty2009 - 7:th-Mar-2015
Pull the battery neg for 30mins to reset everything mate see that fixes it.
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - sheppy1 - 7:th-Mar-2015
I would but I don't have a socket wrench to loosen the bolt which connects it :(
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - sheppy1 - 7:th-Mar-2015
Used a pair of pliers and did it. I even disconnected all of my wiring for the LEDs too but still had the issue :(
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - Rusty2009 - 7:th-Mar-2015
10mm spanner or adjustable spanner?
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - sheppy1 - 7:th-Mar-2015
Pliers did the job
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - Rusty2009 - 7:th-Mar-2015
Only times I've know this is when I didn't fit my fuseboard back properly
When Lewis put a fuse back in the wrong place
oh and someone else did tap into the wrong wire when doing footwell lights (tapped into the stop/start wire) blew a fuse.
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - sheppy1 - 7:th-Mar-2015
Ahhh right okay, well I didn't connect to any incorrect wires, and even after I did the LEDs everything worked Fine, about 15 mins later I try to start the car and then seeing this issue :-/ the windows won't even wind down now either but I was able to wind them down throughout the whole process
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - Rusty2009 - 7:th-Mar-2015
If pulling the battery doesn't work you could have blown a fuse or the battery could just be flat and it's jump start only on the J due to needing the clutch depressed to start.
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - sheppy1 - 7:th-Mar-2015
Oh balls! And if it's the fuse how would know which is blown?
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - Rusty2009 - 7:th-Mar-2015
process of elimination mate
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - tucpal - 7:th-Mar-2015
I would say your battery is dead unplugging the window switch will do nothing at all with the car not starting you need a jump start
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - sheppy1 - 7:th-Mar-2015
That didn't work mate :( windows started to work again but then stopped shortly after. Getting error code 68 on the dash too
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - Rusty2009 - 7:th-Mar-2015
code 68 is service power steering
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - sheppy1 - 7:th-Mar-2015
Huh...that's odd then, how could that have been caused by anything I did? I have AA home start so might ring them and have them sort it! Ha
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - sheppy1 - 7:th-Mar-2015
Got the AA coming out to fix it under the home start thing I have
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - tucpal - 7:th-Mar-2015
You have connected the led to the correct wires on the window switch the black and yellow but still sure this is just a battery issue
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - sheppy1 - 7:th-Mar-2015
Yeah I did dude and they worked great. Did the wire that had red on it to the yellow cable on the car and the Cable that had white on it to the black on the car. I did completely remove the wiring and it still wouldn't start
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - tucpal - 7:th-Mar-2015
Waite till you get a jump you may have left the lights on to long and drained the battery
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - sheppy1 - 7:th-Mar-2015
I probably won't try and hook the leds up again, would you be able to do it tucpal when I go to see Andy?
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - sheppy1 - 7:th-Mar-2015
tucpal Wrote:Waite till you get a jump you may have left the lights on to long and drained the battery
I'm thinking it is the battery, sometimes the windows would open fully and close again and earlier one opened about an inch and then wouldn't go any further or close again
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - tucpal - 7:th-Mar-2015
Yep no problem but I don't see how that would give the problems you are having sure it is just flat
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - sheppy1 - 7:th-Mar-2015
Yeah me too, if that's all it is then I'll probably just redo them myself
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - sheppy1 - 7:th-Mar-2015
All sorted! AA man got it running again
Annoyed that I undid all my wiring in a panic!!! Ha. Gonna have to redo it now :-/
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - tucpal - 7:th-Mar-2015
cool but next time make sure the ignition is of and lights etc when you are working on the car
Car won't start after installing led and door cards!! - sheppy1 - 7:th-Mar-2015
Haha yeah I'm such an idiot!! Will hopefully wire it up again tomorrow, I've given up on solder, I just made a hole in the original wire after stripping it and fed the new wire through it and twisted to seal and then finished it off with some electrical tape