1998 DODGE NEON WON'T START HELP!!1

GENEMNC wrote in rec.autos.tech

Turn off the caps lock and quit shouting. Now, how did you check the battery? By turning on the lights or did you actually read it with a meter. Your lights take only a little bit of current to run, while the starter takes a lot. Lights and radio are no indication of the true state of your battery. 90 percent of the time your symptoms are a dead battery, half the time it is dead because the cables are loose and/or corroded. Check and clean the cables at the battery, then when the other ends of the cables. Then get a jump, the car will probably start right up.