It is a 94 sc300. The battery is good. Still tried to jump it with the same result. Here is what it is doing. Put the key in, full power everything still. Turn the key, and you get one "click" noise down by the starter. Does that mean the starter has gone out on the ole girl?

 

Is your car an auto?

I know this may be a long shot but if you accidentally left the gear in places other than P, it would happen.

Jon

 

there have been known cases where the battery cable on the engine side (not the battery side) has come losened up. Symptoms of this problem has been exactly what you describe. other simptoms would be battery not charging properly(pre mature drain) there were quite a few with this problem last year.

 

i'm with vs, check the connections on the starter also.

 

The thing is I had jumped in the car and started it just fine, then relized I'd left something in the house, so I shut the car off, ran in the house and came back out. This all took less then 3 minutes. I tried to start it an nothing. Just the one click. My guy up here thinks the starter is bound up, whatever that means.

 

if the cable is loose then you will be able to jump start the car but the battery itself would not have re-charged as it should have. I would check the cable before spending money replacing the starter.
as stated before... a bunch of other SC owners had this problem and they were for the most part the cable.

 

UPDATE:

Found the culprit. The starter arm thingy must have gotten hung up. My motor guru friend said jack it up and give the starter a few good knocks with a hammer (I'm being serious). I did not expecting anything to change, but low and behold she fired right up again and again after the pounding.

Weird.

 

You may want to replace your starter then, or the cylonoid. Ususaly when a starter is going bad, you can give them a good hit to get it to work again. But normaly it doesn't last for long

 

James,

It might be time for a new Starter buddy. I had a buddy who had the same problem with his Chevy truck.
I guess it's "Hammer Time" til then~!