Originally Posted by
pizzaguy
Wrong. The SKREEM can be bad, the door locks may still work. The SKREEM has two 'halves', the "door locking" half and the "start or no start" half.
A bad SKREEM will cause the engine to crank over and "kinda start", then die. It will do this twice. Third try, you get nothing.
Why would it need charging? If you drive the car, the battery is charged by the alternator. If you let the car sit for WEEKS, it will run down, mine sits three weeks at a time, starts fine.
My idea/question is the same as George's above. If your answer is 'yes', we know it's 99% likely the RCM.
If your answer is 'no' we have more diagnostics to do.
I just tried it out, left it on the ignition side and about 30 secs later there is 3 consecutive clicks, however the fan does not turn on. As for the SKREEM, as far as i know the engine doesn’t even attempt to crank, its just silence. Im not very mechanically inclined, just comparing mine to other peoples problems. Sorry for any inconveniences