Know your cars Clicks. Why it won't start

What I'm showing in this video is the basic checklist that you need to go through to troubleshoot your car or truck's noises in this case whenever you go to start it it just clicks. The first thing you need to make sure is that your battery has enough voltage in it to drive the starter and turn the engine. The easiest way to do that is to put a load on your battery in the way you do that is turn your key forward on your ignition into the run position and then turn your blower motor on high and then turn on your headlights and see if the blower motor drops considerably as far as the speed that its operating at. So you can have somebody check your headlights to C when the headlights are on high beams and you turn the blower motor on into the high speed position if the headlights go extremely dim and again the blower motor runs at a low speed. The reason you do that is because those two things are the biggest draw on the battery now if you have a rear defroster on your rear window that also can be used to see how much draw the battery can handle. One of the sure signs that you have either a battery connection problem or a little battery is when you turn the key forward to the start position and a series of rapid clicks go on underneath the hood sounds like a small machine gun. Usually that means that there's not enough battery juice to engage the starter relay fully. However if there isn't a rapid series of clicking and you have a hard click bitch is heard further down in the engine closer to where the starter is mounted it could mean that that. That your starter motor, that is the part that actually turns the engine, is bad and needs replaced. If you watch the steps that I take in the video I'll describe how you can turn the engine by hand Andrew out that you have any kind of a lockup problem with the engine itself. If the engine is turning freely as the accessories are too, then you most likely have a bad starter motor like is shown in this video. Thanks for watching .. click like or subscribe!