----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Chung 
  To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. 
  Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:05 AM
  Subject: [OT] Car problem elimination


  Hi guys,

  Need some advise with my current car. I could start the car
  without no problems at all. This was about an hour of rest. 
  While driving the ABS light turned on*Checked through my service manual that something was wrong with my ABS*. Decided to turn off the car. Attempted to immediately restart the car again. But it failed. There was some clicks from the engine but NO cranks. Left it idle for 5 mins. Could start the car
  immediately! 

  I am not sure that is it the battery fault. Since batteries that go bad
  can't start the car period..... Or at least start the car once and can't restart again despite waiting for it to recover.....

  Any clues?

  Thanks,
  John Chung

Our Toyota had a starter solenoid problem that sounds like yours.
IT was a (New) rebuilt starter.
The problem is the copper disk used for the high current connection.
Old starters have this problem on all our toyotas! (Truck and car)
each attempt to start rotates the disk slightly.
It would start after several attempts when the disk rotated to an area that was conductive.

Perhaps this will help.

Tom
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