Help … suddenly my car won’t start … I have a 1996 mazda 121 bubble , I have no dash lights , no stereo etc but I have headlights and good battery but it won’t start …. Any ideas ?

 

How have you determined that the battery is good?

Does it have a factory immobiliser?

Have you carried out any work on it prior to it not starting?

 

Tried a brand new battery , tried jumping it, no work done on it previous and no imobiliser.

 

Check ALL the fuses in the fuse box and any fusible links on the battery terminal.

Try hooking the jumper leads direct to the starter motor ( only if your confident and competent) . Also try bridging the starter motor solenoid. ( only if your confident and competent)

 

Tried jumping the starter motor it will turn over but won’t start

 

I'm leaning towards fuses.

Is it carburetted or fuel injection?

 

We thought fuses too but there must be another fuse box we can’t find … there are 4 main fuses in engine bay all good and the ones in the drivers footwell but none of them are for dash lights stereo etc so in theory there must be more somewhere but we have no idea where and will have to double check if it has a car by or not .

 

Ok, don't do all that monkey stuff (emobiliser!), that is just wrongQ. Colleen, what you need to do is check for spark to the coil and the distributor. if you have spark then check for spark to the plugs. I suggest a volt meter.