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dawnuh · Jul 16, 2013, 07:46 AM

I'm going to try not to make this very long winded, but...

A few weeks ago my I drove to my moms house and when I got ready to leave my car would not start. I had been noticing it was taking a long time to start lately and told my husband I thought it could be the starter. So we had the car worked on and replaced a few things, fuel pump, filter and things of those nature since we thought the car wasn't getting any fuel. Come to find out the security had been triped so I towed the car to the nissan dealership and had everything reset. I attempted to start the car and thought I needed a boost but by the time the nissan guy got there with his handy dandy boosting thing I got it started. Later on it didn't start tried again and it did... Then finally it wouldn't start again before it was cranking but not turning over now it just "clicks" I know the starter is out. I feel the starter has been the issue the entire time but what I am curious about is this. If the starter is going out and I am steady trying to crank the car would that trip the security? I was back at Nissan today and the lady said she didn't think that would cause that, but it seems in my mind at least and I can totally be wrong but that that is a possibility. If I keep turning the key over and over the car says hold on something's up? Any suggestions? Could it be something worse/more complex than just a bad starter causing the security to flip on? Thanks for any input!

TxGreaseMonkey · Jul 16, 2013, 08:01 AM

I would remove and fully charge (or replace) the battery. Playing around with the negative battery terminal can often trigger the security system. Most auto parts stores will charge and test batteries for free. If you get a new battery, have them charge it prior to installation. My bet is you need a new battery.

dawnuh · Jul 16, 2013, 08:30 AM

The radio and everything else is still coming on. I am about 100% sure the starter is gone at this point. It had a burnt smell and now only clicks it doesn't crank at all. I just wanted to know if the starter going out could make the security thing flip on. If you were trying to start the car over and over. Thanks again

odinn7 · Jul 16, 2013, 11:31 AM

I don't think a bad starter will cause the security to trip... more like the other way around... the security system will disable a starter.

dawnuh · Jul 16, 2013, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by odinn7

I don't think a bad starter will cause the security to trip...more like the other way around....the security system will disable a starter.

. I took starter to autozone and it was bad but the security thinks still on

dawnuh · Jul 16, 2013, 02:14 PM

Originally Posted by dawnuh

. I took starter to autozone and it was bad but the security thinks still on

And I didn't think the bad starter tripped it but trying to start it over and over did maybe?

odinn7 · Jul 16, 2013, 02:27 PM

Maybe it did... so you have no idea how to reset the security system?

dawnuh · Jul 16, 2013, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by odinn7

Maybe it did....so you have no idea how to reset the security system?

I took It to nissan and they reset it yesterday that was before we found out starter was bad

odinn7 · Jul 16, 2013, 02:31 PM

Usually the key fob will do it. Did you see what they did?

dawnuh · Jul 16, 2013, 02:32 PM

Originally Posted by dawnuh

I took It to nissan and they reset it yesterday that was b4 we found out starter was bad

got home went to start it and it wouldn't start after trying a few times security light came back on I've tried everything with turning it on and off and taking cables off battery and touching them locking and unlocking the door

odinn7 · Jul 16, 2013, 02:35 PM

Usually locking and unlocking the doors with the key fob is enough to reset it. Beyond that, I don't know. I'm sorry.

dawnuh · Jul 16, 2013, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by odinn7

Usually locking and unlocking the doors with the key fob is enough to reset it. Beyond that, I don't know. I'm sorry.

That's all right I really just wanted to know if several attempts to start could cause the security system to b engaged but I found another forum that said five attempts to start could cause it but car is at nissan dealership so ill know tomorrow thanks again

dawnuh · Jul 17, 2013, 05:07 AM

I took the starter to autozone yesterday and it failed all of the tests so it was definitely bad. I think I should have explained myself better. I don't think the starter caused the issue but my reaction to the starter going bad, attempting to start the car over and over made the security say hey what is going on you can't do that... make sense?

odinn7 · Jul 17, 2013, 07:05 AM

It does make sense. I see what you're trying to say. I have never heard of that but I can't say that it isn't something used on some security systems.

Make sure they explain to you how to reset it in case it happens again.