[I have to apologize if this isn't a helpful description, i'm not great with cars]

My car won't start. Up until the other day, it had been working fine. I had no problems driving, nothing was out of the usual.

I went to start it the other day, and it wouldn't. I turn the key, and the engine cranks normally, but it doesn't start. No matter how many times I tried or hours I waited in between tries, it wouldn't start.

What could the problem be?

very low ammount of info there but from what you said its the battery.

i have a 92 olds-

All of the interior things [lights, radio, etc] are working just fine. I tried jumping the battery also [until someone told me it wasnt a battery problem.] it's cranking at a normal speed and everything. I've never had this problem before with this car.

Interior lights and radio usually work when the battery is dead, it just doesn't have enough juice to start the motor up. If you tried to jump it though and it still wouldn't start, the problem is most likely something else.

Can you hear the starter engage when you turn the key over and does it smell like gas if you keep trying to start it?

Also, make sure to check your grounding points on the battery and the frame... a lot of times they aren't tight and it can cause the motor not to start.

Ok, thanks. Well when we tried jumping it, I didn't really leave time for the battery to charge. We basically hooked the cars up, they started theirs and i subsequently tried starting mine.

I don't smell gas or anything when i try to start it, and i have to apologize- i'm not knoweledgeable with cars, so i dont know what the starter ould sound like when it engages. But like I said- nothing sounds out of character when i turn the key. It cranks just fine, [not too fast or slow..just normal speed] it just wont start.

I guess i should probably take it to get looked at, but thats the last solution. I'd rather have an idea first and try to fix whatever that may be before i have to go spend my money.

If you can find it and reach it, try giving the starter a little whack with a rubber malet. I know in some cases on boats the starter will stick, so you have to give it a few love taps it it will finally engage...I dunno where you are from but it's cold as hell here, and maybe the weather could have affected the starter in some way, esp considering it's an older car..But it's not a boat so I'm not sure if that's the case

I go to school in northern Virginia, and it just snowed for the first time the other day..a few inches. The day after it snowed was when it stopped starting. I'll give it a try.

it might be your spark plugs 2 bekend :loco:

Fuel pump

Could it be carbon build up on the Distributer? Mines a 1995 car and i cleaned the carbon off the distributer points a few months ago and it ran better. Cant alot of build up stop the car from running?

The first post said the car turns over, but won't fire. That eliminates the battery. You need to start with the basics. does it have fuel? does it have spark? Does it have compression?
How many miles on it? Could have lost the timing gear. Could be a lot of things. Start with te basics...., bring back more information....

haha this was a dig, this was from 4 months ago, I think if he hadn't started it yet, he prob brought it to a mechanic by now

My first time in the room. I needed someone to crap on me... thanks!

ok i know it was a long time ago but im always up for a chalenge and i know that he probly wont say if i was right or rong but hey im boarde so... ok 1st i would have asked what engine and given the year prob a quad-4 (thats the 1st problem) i would suggest for checking for spark to take each plug wire off (1 at a time and marking wich went were) take a screwdriver and puting in end of wire placeing the screwdriver about an inch away from grounded metel and try to turn over but only for a second if you see spark between driver and metel you got spark repeat threw all wires..now for compresion (a test thats not extreamly accurate about how mutch comp but tells you if you have any) take out a sparkplug and stick a cork in it and turn over and if it pops out you have compresion repeat for all cylinders...ps watch out for the cork it most likely will fly out....now fuel i know a messy way but has worked for me... ok i know sounds bad but try to pump gas till you smell gas lol then if you do smell gas then you got fuel ...now to unflood the engine take sparkplugs out and being a gm of that year you press gas pedle to the floor(will actualy shut off the pump) turn over doing so will eject all the extra gas out the spark plug holes after that i would ask for a report on what they came up with and then give more advice on his resaults