Did a bit of poking around, looking up errors on the dash and such. His battery seems to be past due for replacement.

The car’s system would turn on, but the error message was talking about the anti-collision braking system being offline. Trying to start it and it would barely turn over.

Looked at the battery connectors and the positive have a chunk of corrosion on it.

He lives next door to a dealership, so should be easy to replace.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    5·
    18 days ago

    Have you tried unplugging and plugging it back in again?

    Yeah I kinda joke, but get the battery checked…

    What model and year is it?

    • Albbi@piefed.caEnglish
      2·
      18 days ago

      I had a 2009 Kia Rio that needed unplugging and plugging back in to get it to start. One of the computer chips must’ve been malfunctioning and it wouldn’t recognize the immobilizer chip in the key I think. You could try turning the key for 5 minutes and get nothing, then it would just randomly work. By disconnecting the battery for a while (I left it overnight) I could get a good few weeks out of the car before it started acting up again.