Hi all,
In need of some help please!
As we've all got a bit more time on our hands with lock down, I thought I'd buy a borescope to have a look inside my engine. Pleased to report all looked well, but...
When I put everything back together my
2006 Cayman S
manual won't start! Video below showing what happens but in summary it: makes a clicking sound, gives a
PASM
failure alert, gives PSM failure alert and the driver side window starts going down! What on earth have I done!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReQS3QhxYhk
To be really clear in what I did, I...
1. Jacked up the car, removed the passenger side rear wheel and two internal wheel arch covers.
2. Unplugged the coil packs on cylinders 5 & 6
3. Unscrewed the coil packs on 5 & 6 and removed them
4. Unscrewed the spark plugs, had a peer inside with my camera
5 I then realised pistons 5 & 6 had come to rest near the end of the cylinder so I couldn't see much of the cylinder wall which was what I wanted to look at, so i put everything together and went to start the engine. At this point it turned over a few times but didn't start (it normally starts first time every time) but I didn't think much of it.
6 I then took coil packs and spark plugs out of 5 & 6 to have another look now the pistons had moved.
7 Then I put it all back together and am now stuck with it not starting as shown in the video
Any help is very much appreciated!!
Thanks in advance,
Jon
So, what you did should not result in a no-start (maybe a very rough start) or the window rolling down. If I were a betting man I’d say your battery was old and you ran it down with the door/s open or playing the radio or whatever.
Do you have a trickle charger? Put it on the battery overnight and try tomorrow.
Otherwise I would say you have another unrelated issue and just bad timing. I cannot see any reason for the window behaviour beyond a bad switch or weird electronic things from a low battery.
I agree - sounds like a battery issue. Charge it up if you can.
+ one. PSM light comes on after you kill or unhook the battery.
Hi all,
Thanks for the advice. Just to update this thread incase it helps anyone else... it was indeed a dead battery. Must have drained it whilst working on the car with the door open.
I have just jumped it from my wife's car and all is fine again! Phew! Going to put the battery on charge now.
Thanks again all,
Jon
I learned how these cars go from fine to completely dead, I now leave my car on a tender even when setting for a few days.I am glad you got it sorted out.
yeah these cars need healthy battery, mine did the same.
battery tender
if I'm not going to drive for more than 3-4days
Seriously, if your car (any make/model) can't last a week or two without dying then there's something wrong with the battery or you have a wiring problem. My '08CS has easily gone a couple of weeks without being started and it's always fired right up.
Indeed. One instance where the battery was too weak to start the engine, and you tried starting it - can drive the battery down to be worthless and almost impossible to fully recharge. If the battery is out of warranty - consider it dead and buy a new one.. If it's under warranty - use that to offset the cost of a new battery and buy a new one. It's one of the problems with nursing along garage queens - the batteries don't really take that well to it.
