When a Vehicle Refuses to Start: A Step-by-Step Troubleshooting Guide
You Turn the Key. Nothing. Now What? No click. No cough. No familiar rattle of an engine waking up. Just silence—or worse, a weak chug that goes nowhere. Whether you are in a delivery van with a tight schedule or standing outside your own car before work, a non-starting vehicle is more than inconvenient. It is a dead stop. And it rarely happens at a good moment.
The real problem, though, is not the silence under the bonnet—it is the uncertainty. Is it the battery? The starter? Something expensive? Or is it just something simple that everyone overlooks?