lend me some help - car wunt start and guages dunt work

[sci0n]

Hey guys, my 240 is giving me some ****. It wont start half the time and half the time it does start, the guages light up but they dont work. Like I can drive wherever I want, but my speedometer, temp, fuel, rpm etc. guages dont work. Any suggestions?

Thanks-sci0n-

[AllTurBo]

Sounds like an electrical problem to me. Time to bust out the multimeter and start checking the connections.

Could be a bad ground somewhere, The negative battery terminal would be as good a place as any to start.

[sci0n]

Yea I thought that at first, but I literally just had the battery replaced yesterday, it worked fine before all this, could it be the new battery?

[AllTurBo]

It could be the battery, but maybe just the way the battery was installed. Check that the connections at the terminals are tight. and if you have a multimeter check the voltage between the terminals.

[NISTECH]

check your meter fuse and other fuses. if the gauges worked untill you put the battery in I suspect the battery cables were breifly touched to the wrong posts and poped a fuse or 2. as far as the intermitten no start. since it will start sometimes it wouldnt be a fuse as that failure. you may have a bad starter or starte interupt device. manuals trans cars tend to have a problem with either the switch on the clutch pedal or the relay under the hood for the clutch interupt.

[SloS13]

punch the fuse/relay box near the battery repeatedly. See if that changes anything. Also punch/kick/wiggle it while the motor is runnign and see if anything funky happens

[NISTECH]

punch the fuse/relay box near the battery repeatedly. See if that changes anything. Also punch/kick/wiggle it while the motor is runnign and see if anything funky happens

awww the good old days. The old school way to fix your car[ and anything broke or dented during your "repair" process]

[sci0n]

haha i feel russian.

[NISTECH]

fuse??