Battery Cable Status?

[Wilson]

I’ve been having random No Crank No Start. Whenever the No Crank No Start occurs, I lose power. As soon as I turn the key to start, all the power is gone. No lights on the dash, no interior lights, it was like the battery was stone dead. To fix the problem, I remove the negative terminal and reseat it and the car starts. But when that method doesn’t work, I remove the negative and the positive and the car starts.
Today, the problem happened. I re-seat the negative, no start. I go to re-seat the positive and I notice this.

Seeing that, I tried to stuff the wires into the terminal the best I can so I can get home and the car starts, yay! My question to you is this, did I find the source of my problem or am I looking at a disaster waiting to happen?

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[EricTheCarGuy]

You may find this useful.

Also this.

http://www.ericthecarguy.com/faq/solving-automotive-no-start-problems

Good luck and please keep us updated.

[Richard Kirshy]

Ummm that connection looks pretty dodgy.
If the other looks anything like it, I think you need to seriously consider at the very least, cutting back the tarnished/corroded wiring and install new terminals.
Or better replace the cables all together

[Wilson]

It turns out that the wire that was hanging outside the terminal in the picture fell off when I touched the following morning because the No Crank No Start had occurred. So I took a wire brush and gave it a good cleaning.

I remove as much crude as possible to get it as shiny as you see in the picture above. Too bad I didn’t take any pictures of the progress because I had go to work and I was press for time. I stuffed the wires into the terminal and secured it tightly. Fast forward to today, it starts first time every time.

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[Ian Williams]

I was about to write , clean up the terminals , good to see you’ve fixed the issue

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[Ken Shepard]

[quote=”marik7410″ post=156382]It turns out that the wire that was hanging outside the terminal in the picture fell off when I touched the following morning because the No Crank No Start had occurred. So I took a wire brush and gave it a good cleaning.

I remove as much crude as possible to get it as shiny as you see in the picture above. Too bad I didn’t take any pictures of the progress because I had go to work and I was press for time. I stuffed the wires into the terminal and secured it tightly. Fast forward to today, it starts first time every time.[/quote]

might want to consider putting some dilectric grease on that connection. Also although those terminals have been around for years and years they are usually listed as “test” terminals and i guess that means they arent designed to be installed long term

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