2000 neon

[ak diesel driver]

my brother bought a wrecked neon and was messing around with it trying to get it to start. He can get everything to work except the starter. He's wondering if the airbags being deployed would affect the ecm enough to disable the starter? any thoughts?

 

[Mad Maxx]

The Airbags could have Locked the ECM, and it'll need to be Reset, some other People say to Check the Crank Position Sensor. That could Cause the Problem too.

 

[THEFERMANATOR]

What year? Most DODGE products back before about 01 or 02 didn't have any control over the starter via the ECM(the key triggerred a relay that triggered the starter).

 

[jrsavoie]

Has he hot wired the starter?

 

[trouttrooper]

it's a 10+ year old starter. Could very well just be bad. Can you take it off easy and run it to an auto parts store to test it?

 

[THEFERMANATOR]

Head smack moment. I guess I should have read the title better before I posted earlier. Has he tried jumping teh starter relay yet? That is where he needs to start with it.

 

[ak diesel driver]

yep that's next. we'll do that next time we mess with it.