Type R Won't Start \o/ ...

danza said:
No, sorry, forgot to mention that everything works, A/C, lights, stereo. Dash lights up as normal when key is turned, but nothing happens - it doesn't turn over.
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First and most obvious thing, charge the battery. My civic wouldn't turn over if the battery was below a certain charge level even though everything worked due to a safety feature of some sort...
 
Dolph said:
First and most obvious thing, charge the battery. My civic wouldn't turn over if the battery was below a certain charge level even though everything worked due to a safety feature of some sort...
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Battery is fine. Voltage level was ok at 12.5V, so about 80% charge.
 
Hmmm, let's consider the known facts:

1) The fob doesn't seem to de-activate the alarm/central locking/immobiliser.
2) It's raining.

My guess would be water in part of the alarm.
 
Hades said:
Hmmm, let's consider the known facts:

1) The fob doesn't seem to de-activate the alarm/central locking/immobiliser.
2) It's raining.

My guess would be water in part of the alarm.
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This is what I'll be looking into. My first thoughts were that the wife had driven through water, but she hasn't. I do have an inkling though that water is causing this. I've had the car for a month, and it hasn't done it before today when it totally lashed it down most of the time.

Either way, it's going to need to be towed if it doesn't start behaving when it dries out.

djbenjo said:
I friend of mine had an EP3 civic, he had his alarm control unit replaced no less than FIVE times!
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Not had any starting problems on my EP3 so can't really help a lot but I know the CTR is very sensitive to even smallest drop in voltage. As Dolph has suggested I would (if I were you) at least try to borrow a battery to test the theory.
 
danza said:
Battery is fine. Voltage level was ok at 12.5V, so about 80% charge.
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Is that on load? or doing nothing?

It's not uncommon for a battery to show ok voltage until you try to start it when it plummets.
 
Creepy. My GTi6 suffered from something incredibily similar last week. Tried opening it remoltly and it wouldn't. Unlocked it with the key and reset the alarm and it wouldn't start. The dash was goes nuts - rev and speedo all the way round. Never seen anyting like it.

Remember that a couple of days previous I had been fiddling with fuses and the battery as my rad fans had stopped working (turned out to be a fuse, phew!) and it looks like I hadn't connected the battery tight enough. Reattached the +ve and she started fine.

Not much help but I'm also betting imobilisor/battery related :)
 
Dup said:
Yes, nobodies mentioned the simplest thing... the fuses! Check those.
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All fuses checked, none were blown.

I tried the reomte this morning, and now it's working again. Must be water, as the rain subsided last night. It's fine now too, although it has rained a bit this morning.
 
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