{"id":37914,"date":"2016-12-27T17:57:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T22:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=37914"},"modified":"2016-12-27T17:57:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T22:57:47","slug":"2002-pontiac-grand-am-no-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/12\/2002-pontiac-grand-am-no-start","title":{"rendered":"2002 Pontiac Grand Am No Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29857\" src=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2002-pontiac-grand-am-gt.jpg\" alt=\"2002 Pontiac Grand Am\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2002-pontiac-grand-am-gt.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2002-pontiac-grand-am-gt-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Car wouldn&#8217;t start one morning. It gets fuel and spark. We took it to our mechanic friend where it sat for about 2 months. We got the car back when he wasn&#8217;t able to figure it out. It started right away and was fine for a few days then died while I was driving. The dash lights have been on since we got it over a year ago, we tried to bypass the security. We are at a loss. Please help!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>RESPONSE<\/p>\n<p>The security will shut off the fuel injector pulse. So if you are getting fuel and spark, it has nothing to do with the security. Here is a wonderful no start diagnostic chart that gives you step by step checks to follow.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/nostart.html\"><strong>Engine No Start Diagnostics<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car wouldn&#8217;t start one morning. It gets fuel and spark. We took it to our mechanic friend where it sat for about 2 months. We got the car back when he wasn&#8217;t able to figure it out. It started right away and was fine for a few days then died while I was driving. The&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/12\/2002-pontiac-grand-am-no-start\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2002 Pontiac Grand Am No Start<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[500,13],"class_list":["post-37914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pontiac","category-auto-repair-questions","tag-grand-am","tag-no-start"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}