fmstatic

Okay so I'm completely fucking clueless what would cause this. Any tips would help (and save me an expensive trip to the dealership).

Sometimes when I go to start my car, I go to turn it over and there's nothing. Nothing at all. BUT for some reason, if I pop trunk, get out of the car, and close my trunk, then the car starts up.

This is fucking weird to me. And its been happening more and more often, been going on for a little over a month and at first it only happened once or twice a week but over the weekend it would happen a few times a day... basically like 1/3 times I go to start my car.

Any ideas? Only thing I can think of is some kind of short in the ignition, which I wouldn't be able to fix myself which means more $$ out of my pocket.

car is an 02 accord ex

themacuser.org

umm.. warranty?

HatefulMechanic

those cars are terrible about having ignition switches fail.

gen4H22A

look at your battery terminals... make sure everything is tightened up all the way and not loose

fmstatic

I wish... car just turned 60,000 miles last week.

yeah there's an ignition switch recall on my car actually, but not because of this reason. the recall is because i you can turn the car off & remove the key while driving or so the notice says. but damn you joey you were supposed to know exactly what was wrong and how to fix it... ass

looks like my best chance is to get my car serviced for the recall and hope that solves this problem...

HatefulMechanic

i have had several mess up due to contact issues, and Honda only recalled it for a certain thing, like most recalls.

the key to it being a switch is you can barely move the key and it will make contact. try doing a wiggle test on it next time it does it.

fmstatic

will do, thanks