I hate to start too many threads but this is really perplexing. I have a 1999 xj. Sometimes I will get in the car, turn the key and it will crank totally normally, as I am used to it doing. However, lately it has developed this annoying habit - I turn the key, and I get nothing. Absolutely nothing, from the engine compartment. However, all the electrical accessories work (headlights, wipers, radio, windows, whatever.) I try again in ten seconds, sometimes it will crank, sometimes nothing. I try again. sometimes crank, sometimes nothing. If it still hasn't started, I mess with things at random, lights, parking brake lever, and usually by that point it will start. What is the problem? I do notice that it does it more often and it takes longer to make it work when it's cold out. My battery is an Optima, less than a month old, and my terminals are brass and new. My alternator tests fine. Starter relay maybe?
Search turns up nss threads, but i do not think that's my problem as 1. my reverse lights always work and 2. moving the shift lever will generally not improve anything, and 3. if it won't start in park, it won't start in neutral either.
Joe
Search turns up nss threads, but i do not think that's my problem as 1. my reverse lights always work and 2. moving the shift lever will generally not improve anything, and 3. if it won't start in park, it won't start in neutral either.
Joe