[Sweetlou]

All,

My 07 manual is intermittently not starting. It's definitely not the battery. I push the clutch in and turn the key - I can hear the relay under the passenger dash click but no start, no crank, nada - it's as if the clutch isn't pushed in. If I try to start without the clutch pushed in it acts exactly the same.

Before I order a new inhibitor switch, is there anything I can test? Maybe bypass the switch?

Thanks
Lou

 

[Sweetlou]

All,

My 07 manual is intermittently not starting. It's definitely not the battery. I push the clutch in and turn the key - I can hear the relay under the passenger dash click but no start, no crank, nada - it's as if the clutch isn't pushed in. If I try to start without the clutch pushed in it acts exactly the same.

Before I order a new inhibitor switch, is there anything I can test? Maybe bypass the switch?

Thanks
Lou

Never mind, stupid plastic thingy on clutch pedal is broken and no longer making good contact with the switch. I took it out and replaced it with a few neoprene spacers I had floating around. Good to go. Thanks!

 

[raymond~]

good job. i actually hated the switch so i bypassed it and wired in a kill switch
but i left the OE in place so upon casual viewing it would look intact. if, after
40 years of driving a manual trans, I've not learned to step on the clutch prior
to starting the ignition, i deserve the jerk.

 

[jebova2301]

Never mind, stupid plastic thingy on clutch pedal is broken and no longer making good contact with the switch. I took it out and replaced it with a few neoprene spacers I had floating around. Good to go. Thanks!

mine had the same issue. I was able to talk to the guy at the body shop i used to work at and he gave me a bunch of the push rivets so i could find one that fit.