Toyota aygo wont start

Gazzza81

Hi
My other halfs aygo wont start and just wondering if anyone can help.

Basicly it was fine yesterday and today it wont start, wont even turn over, all the lights come on but then nothing at all not even a wirring sound, just silence haha

Ive checked the battery with a multimeter and its putting out 13.1v

Any ideas what it could be?

EdGasketTheSecond

Bad switch, bad starter solenoid, bad starter, bad connection, blown fuse. Try the battery terminals first.

Gazzza81

Thanks
Its not a fuse ive cheched that, what do you mean chack the battery terminals? In what way?
Is there a way of testing if the starter is knackered?

jimbo6977

In ye olden days you'd poke the starter motor with a broomstick.

Gazzza81

Haha yeah i remember that from when i as a kid, its a bit tricky to get a good whack on it where its located though, i tried haha

LadyDee

I'm sure this is not the situation here (!), but the day after I first bought my Aygo it wouldn't start. I'd left it in gear the night before (insert red, embarrassed smilie)!

Gazzza81

Why what does leaving it in gear do?

It it a new one where you have to have your foot on the clutch or something?

Ours is a 2008 so doesn't have that

EdGasketTheSecond

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

Bad switch, bad starter solenoid, bad starter, bad connection, blown fuse. Try the battery terminals first.

Check the connections are clean and not loose. I had a car once where everything except the starter worked and it was just a loose battery terminal which could not supply the current needed for the starter but the connection was good enough for all else. Try the simple things first.

The_Rainmaker

Assuming petrol and not auto give it a push start and see how you go.

Gazzza81

Would push starting it work of its the starter?
There is literally nothing when you turn the key

martinthebandit

Gazzza81 wrote: »

Would push starting it work of its the starter?
There is literally nothing when you turn the key

So no lights on the dash or anything?