'08 Cobalt 2.2ltr -No Crank, No Start

[@shortroundracing8120]

I would just like to thank you! That ground point you found the issue with was exactly the problem I was having with my girlfriends car. I finally have her car running again all thanks to you.

[@CubasAutomotive]

THAT is awesome! I'm glad my video could be of help! 😁👏🏻 It's not real easy to buy a new car today. Thank you so much for sharing! Made my night 😊

[@fortywaller3462]

Thanks for your help. I appreciate your presence on you tube ❤

[@michaelboley5879]

So Just so you know as many other people have said Nice Job! My sons car had the same problem and you were spot on with the diagnosis! Thank you for sharing your knowledge it was much appreciated.

[@ozzstars_cars]

As soon as you said, "towed in from Jersey" I felt your pain.....lol.

[@CubasAutomotive]

ahhhhh, yeah, I bet you're just as aware of how bad most of their vehicles are. The* way inspections are done don't help the situation either... lol. Oh well, the POS Cobalt lives to die another day. LOL

[@jerzcnate]

Whoa why digs at Jersey home of Jim and Joe 🤔🤨😁

[@themechanic6117]

It's easy to get side tracked by problems you don't even know that you created. It's like fixing a no crank only for it to still not crank and you're here scratching your head....not realizing you forgot to reinstall the crank relay 🤣. Great work. You pulled through as always

[@CubasAutomotive]

🤣🤣🤣 absolutely Jonathan! The trick is to persevere and have patience. It's real easy to get frustrated and start throwing tools or just failing to step back & start over again. I always enjoy your vids too, as you always seem to succeed in the end no matter how much of a POS a vehicle is. Feliz año nuevo amigo! 😊🎉🎆

[@themechanic6117]

@@CubasAutomotive Thank you and happy new year! 👍

[@shakeelsss]

Congratulations on your new shop and it's always a great pleasure watching your contents. Happy holiday seasons

[@CubasAutomotive]

Definitely looking forward to that!! My own bay to where I have great light, diag cart, huge monitor for schematics or scope, clean area, out of the elements.... yeah. I'm stoked! 😅🥰 Merry Christmas and happy new year my friend!! Thanks so much for stopping by! 😊🎉

[@MichaelCopeland-fh1lh]

I Still have mine since brand new,great car.❤

[@artsofancientwisdom]

Your video inspired me. I got 2008 Chevy Cobalt 2.4 Sports dead car. It was working find and died. The ground wires at the fond engine location like in your video look find on my car visually, but I decided to disconnect and clean them. As I took them off, I found them corroded inside. I fixed and now the car starts fine. Thanks. Your speech makes a lot of noise. All other behaviors of yours are fine. Don't make "noises" while you talk. Talk only the necessity briefly.

[@JT-lq4yd]

Hi there Ms. Cuba. Great job on this case study! If I followed correctly, the whole problem was a bad ground. It's nice that you have a place to work outside the elements and before you know it, you will have a whole building to yourself.

[@CubasAutomotive]

Yes, out of the elements for the 1st time in over 15 yrs.... with the exception of the shops I have calling me for diags, as if it's inclement weather, they'll bring the cars in for me. Yes, you are correct. A bad clump of grounds. Many vehicles utilize individual grounds to certain sensors or circuits, I think to cut down on noise and such. Had I stuck to my process, that conclusion would've been more obvious. My apologies. I kept the mistake in the footage.... just to emphasize that need to stick to a methodical method. Don't jump around. Merry Christmas J T!! Hope you're doing well, that your Christmas was amazing! I'm also wishing you a happy new year!!🎉🎆😊😉

[@edwardlukas9846]

You help me so much with my 08 Cobalt no crank no start bad ground wire thank you so much you're the bomb

[@CubasAutomotive]

That's badass! Thanks for taking the time to share! 😁👍🏻👏🏻

[@grabovg]

Great video Cuba. Hope all is well!!!

[@CubasAutomotive]

Heyyyy Gera! All is well here! Christmas was awesome! How was yours with the little ones? I bet it was blessed! Happy new & healthy year!! 🤗😊🎉🎆

[@neverstoplearning382]

Congrats on your new bay. All the best on this new year.

[@CubasAutomotive]

Muchísimas gracias! Muchas bendiciones, con buena salud, y próspero año nuevo! I appreciate the well wishes! 😁😊🤗

[@rhoptry]

Liked the video. No crank no start are my favorites!

[@CubasAutomotive]

Awesome!! I tend to enjoy those too, I find that there's so many directions it can go! Lol I will pause the video in the beginning and try to guess what it could be with little amount of info (like Ivan or EricO's) then finish and see the answer. Happy New Year!! Thanks for watching! 😁🎉

[@manuellamas4747]

Awesome video. We all go thru that once in a while. Pero you live and learn. At the end of the day aprendes y nunca se te olvida. Congratulations on your business. Looking forward more of your videos. Keep having fun con tu hija. That’s what’s more important. Son como el Scanner Danner and Caleb his son. Huge blessing. Me and my son bump heads when we work together. Feliz Año Nuevo para ti y tu familia. Bendiciones. Much love and respect.

[@CubasAutomotive]

Awww... that was a heart felt comment. I appreciated every word. My daughter & I don't always work well together, but when we do, it's some of the best moments I have each day. I do agree, we are like Paul & Caleb, except I do wish my daughter would do my editing! Lol Caleb is fantastic with that area, also incorporates a lot of humor. 😅 Por supuesto que detalles como éstos nunca me olvidará, son los lecciones mejores aprendidos en mi opinión. Muchas gracias por su comentario y aportación, me alegra mucho leerlo. Te deseo un próspero, feliz, nuevo año con salud y bendiciones! 🤗🎆🎉😊

[@bartscave]

Great diagnosis!

[@CubasAutomotive]

Hey Bart!! Thanks so much!! Happy new year my friend!!😊🤗🎉

[@allanoertell8639]

You are very Brilliant . Love the video. I learned a lot. Same problem with my car.

[@SouthMainAuto]

Woot, Woot! Classic crappy GM ground 😁 Nice job Cuba 👍🏽

[@CubasAutomotive]

Hey Eric! Yes sir! The classic bad GM ground which just might be worse than the classic crappy Chrysler ground. This thing had to be cut back a bit to reach goodish copper. Lol Merry Christmas & happy new year!! Hoping for bigger & better things ahead! 😊🤗🤗🎉🎆

[@billziegmond4943]

CUBA! My friend. Hope you are safe. I know your area of our great Commonwealth is nuts. I hope you had a great Christmas. Also Happy New Year. You Eric O and Ivan still need to meet up.. Big hug for the New Years.

[@CubasAutomotive]

Yes yes yes! I was not able to have my work done in time to go. Even had a 2nd opportunity around Thanksgiving and that fell through too. The work piled up & I wanted to spend Thanksgiving with the family. Oh well. It's still in my near future, might be a better time then too. It's so great to hear from you Bill. BTW, saw you on IG and am now following. Love to see some uploads soon, maybe projects you're working on. Hope you're doing well, as well as the rest of the family! Merry Christmas & happy new year!!😊🎉

[@thebaldmechanichardatheari1124]

Love your logic. Happy New Year 🇨🇦👍

[@CubasAutomotive]

Heyyyyyy Baldy!! Great to hear from you!! No way? You're in Canada? Oh, I'm sorry to hear.... however the beauty of the land there helps. Happy new year my friend! 🤗🤗

[@khalid109q]

Well done.

[@CubasAutomotive]

Thank you so much sir! Always appreciate hearing from you! Happy new year! 🎉😊

[@scientist100]

Yes, always put the transmission in park when doing this lol. Sometimes you learn the hard way that it makes a difference. I once had a Taurus where the Shifter cable head had come off from the range selector and if it wasn't in the right position, the brake pedal would not disengage the lock solenoid because it knows there is a discrepancy between the actual shifter location and the range sensor lol

[@CubasAutomotive]

Lesson definitely learned. As long as that mistake is only done once, I feel I'm ahead. 🤣🤣 Very cool insight on your end. Taurus... yeah. Sable & Taurus have definitely taught me a few lessons over the yrs! Lol 😆 Thanks for the chuckle & great memories 😅 Happy new year my friend! 😊🎉

[@isalmankhan1]

WoW amazing, what a difficult one but it's fixed which makes all this effort worth it👍 Thanks for sharing & Merry Christmas🎄 & Happy New Year🎆 Stay Safe👍

[@CubasAutomotive]

Thanks Salman! You always have great comments! Happy new year to you as well my friend! 🎉😊😁

[@isalmankhan1]

@@CubasAutomotive Huge compliment Thanks😍

[@nickayivor8432]

Pete Meier Motor Age was right about Cuba 's Automotive Four things I like about Cuba 's Automotive PRODIGY INTELLECTUAL SUBSTANTIAL KNOWLEDGEABLE Thanks for sharing it with us. Take care and have a great day Cuba 's Automotive From Nick Ayivor from London England UK 🇬🇧

[@CubasAutomotive]

Always a pleasure to see you drop by Nick! Cheers! 😁👋🏻😊

[@throttlebottle5906]

my ears heard chevy cobalt with a two two, but my mind thought "tutu" skirt 🤣🤣🤣

[@CubasAutomotive]

🤣🤣🤣🤣... now that's good! 🩰 you crack me up!

[@richardcranium5839]

good to see ya.. yeah i think the bad connection helps wick the salt up those wires. i've had to go 6 inches befre to get something good enough to solder to.

[@CubasAutomotive]

You're absolutely right! Salt or brine play a large factor... great to hear from familiar names! 😊 Happy new year my friend! 🎉😁

[@patrickregan6852]

enjoyed your video

[@CubasAutomotive]

Thanks Patrick. 🙂

[@nickerskine2564]

So we changed an engine and tranny in my dads cobalt and we went from a manual transmission to an automatic transmission. We having similar issues as we turn the key and nothing happens at all

[@tc_radar]

Wish that was my son's car that was fixed. We've had it at a dealer. $600 ECM and labor for $883 total. Next day, no start again. Back tot he dealer, said relay and wire. Yesterday, stuck at store......you guessed it, no crank. After 3 tows we now have to take it back AGAIN for the same no crank that they can't seem to fix for more than 50 miles. Son's has to start school 3 hours away and his 01 Dodge pickup with 197k miles has less issues than this 09 Cobalt with 87k miles. Hopefully it's just a ground......

[@CubasAutomotive]

What area of the country are you? There's quite a few of us YTers or diagnosticians all over. Maybe 1 of us is close enough to fix it right? Or the ground is your issue. I've had a few viewers tell me it fixed their vehicle too. Good luck!

[@tc_radar]

We took it to a highly recommended mechanic not to far away. The original brand new starter I put in failed. He had it on the lift and everytime someone turned the key a few little sparks showed. So he "popped it" with the end of a wrench (I've done that before on my bike, until I got a new starter for it) and the car started. Starter solenoid. Put in ANOTHER new starter (local auto parts just sent a new one over to his shop after doing paperwork over the phone for the warranty) and I've started it multiple times and put 50 miles on it yesterday. Crossed fingers it does good the next couple of days. Son has to use it to go to school in Houston, TX for Diesel Tech. We're across the border in Louisiana. Though the roof anxiety it does good.

[@nickayivor8432]

SUBSTANTIAL Cuba 's Automotive Brilliant video thanks for sharing it with us. God bless you Cuba 's Automotive From Nick Ayivor from London England UK 🇬🇧

[@arthurfricchione8119]

Cuba what a terrific unscripted video. For once a video I know I can relate to. Crap all over and going in a million different directions. Great job on a car you don’t have a clue about plus doing it in two different languages. English wasn’t my best subject so I never tried another one. Maybe I should have. Anyway like my daughters and grandkids say if Poppop can’t fix it it can’t be fixed. Lol. If that was your daughter doing the camera work tell her she did an excellent job. Cuba Happy New Year to you and family stay safe and well catch you on the next one 💕😊 Artie. Oh think you know I’ve worked on high performance military aircraft since I was 17yrs old and cars on the side but now I take every ATG CLASS and every webinar I can squeeze in and met a lot of great techs and your included in that group. Looking forward to the next one 👍😊

[@AncelGlobal]

SO COOL

[@C4RL0SVMZ]

Guess who's back, back again Cuba's back, tell a friend Guess who's back, guess who's back Guess who's back. guess who's back Guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA 🤣 Hello my darling, First of all, have to say, Big, huge, massive CONGRATULATIONS YOU REACH 5k 🥳 , and keep rolling, Second of all, you look so cute in your winter´s suit 😉😂, So, you have your own shop 😱 DOUBLE CONGRATULATIONS 🥳, now we demand more automotive content 😂😂😂 is awesome🙌, nice video, as always send you my best wishes for Christmas and New Year, hope you have a great time, greetings from far, far, away south America👋😎

[@CubasAutomotive]

hahahahahahahaha!!!! SOOOO GOOD to hear from you my friend! This is the 2nd most favorite part of YT, the networking, the talking to friends, the sharing of knowledge and helping others. My 1st favorite part is the making of... hmmm ... recording part... where I'm doing the work and trying to show "the people" at the same time as if they were in the shop with me. I try to answer questions that might come up as if there are people completely new to the diag process. Yeah, not my own shop, but I have my own diag bay... i can send customers to or have shops ship the vehicles to me, especially when they are torn all apart, I'll have the ability to take my time within the shop. I have been knocking out all sorts of tremendous case studies in such a little amount of time. I think cases that would have taken me 2 to 3 trips at a few hours at a time. I feel so strong in the diagnostic procedure with most vehicles, and getting better with programming (mostly domestics). Euros are still problematic but improving there too. Merry Christmas Carlos!! Happy New Year.... I truly hope the new year will bring you great blessings!! (insert HUG emojis) (lol I'm on the PC typing, :( no emojis)

[@CubasAutomotive]

🤗🤗🤗🤗🥰😁😅

[@Michael-ge3eo]

What I'm not sure of did you fix it or did you break it and then fix what you broke where did you fix a ground and that would have fixed everything anyway. I'm confused

[@nickayivor8432]

Pete Meier Motor Age was right about Cuba's Automotive INTELLECTUAL Cuba's Automotive From Nick Ayivor from London England UK 🇬🇧 ⏰️ 0716am Good Morning 🙏 🌄

[@cadenhicks3136]

Where do you get these wire diagrams

[@CubasAutomotive]

I pay monthly subscriptions to Alldata & Mitchell (I usually credit the service I use for their images)... almost $400 I think for both. However, I know Alldata does have a yearly sub for 1 car, I think $40? And most manufacturers also offer subs for 1 car for different amounts. I think GM is $40 for 3 days, just to give you an idea. If you need help finding where to go for a specific vehicle, let me know.

[@eyeonart6865]

Where is the crankshaft position sensor located on it?

[@CubasAutomotive]

Behind the starter on the block, at least on the 2.2ltr

[@CubasAutomotive]

Behind the starter on the block, at least on the 2.2ltr

[@arthurfricchione8119]

If I were closer I’d help you get organized just for a few laughs in these crazy times. Watch the message I sent you, you could use a good laugh🇺🇸😊

[@CubasAutomotive]

Always appreciated Artie! You always have great comments & input! I wish you were closer to come help too! 😁 Stay well my friend! ❤🇺🇸🤗

[@arthurfricchione8119]

@@CubasAutomotive Cuba I would never leave a. Derogatory comment to anyone who works hard to make an honest days wage and you definitely do that. I help anyone I can. Cuba I also respect your kind replies. I enjoy having friends that love what they do. Thank you for sharing and if this pandemic ever lightens up maybe will run into each other at an event. Who knows 🇺🇸🙏.

[@CubasAutomotive]

@@arthurfricchione8119 I would be so honored to meet you. A fellow patriot, for one, and I know we share many of the same views & values. Once again you compliment the heck out of me and I greatly appreciate that! I can't wait until things go back to normal and America goes back to being the country it was meant to be.

[@arthurfricchione8119]

@@CubasAutomotive 🇺🇸

[@diymisfit_Mechanic_UDX404]

You're gonna make us wait until next year? That's rough 😅🤣😂

[@CubasAutomotive]

Hahahahaha Dave! Crazy how fast this year has flown by! Happy new year my friend!! 😁😊🎉

[@jeremyanthony9300]

Omg. The Red head is back. How are you doing cuba? Merry Christmas to you and your daughter. What's your email address? I lost it.

[@CubasAutomotive]

Yes, I'm back.... for today. Lol Email is [e-mail] It's always listed in the description 😊😉

[@jeremyanthony9300]

@@CubasAutomotive when you going to come to the Lehigh valley so we can meet?

[@throttlebottle5906]

careful taking wrong turns, four of them make a huge circle. lol 🥳

[@CubasAutomotive]

OMG.... I love circles... *constantly* feel like I'm going in circles, with the exception of diags. 🤣😂😅😅

[@throttlebottle5906]

@@CubasAutomotive join the crowd, from what I see and know, it only gets "better" with age. walk across garage to toolbox, blank mind, what am I supposed to get? go 300 feet across building and out of attic/crawlspace and ""what was I supposed to get?"" you then find your drink, grab some things, walking/crawling some 300 feet back, and then just before reaching the work area, you remember what you was supposed to bring back. lol that's when you hire newbies/trainees to learn and fetch things, but they're never sure what to get and your there waiting while they've forgotten or don't know what you wanted and bring you the wrong things, then you end up going to get it yourself and yourself and trying to teach them to no avail, because they're too busy pecking away at idiot devices( cellphones/tablets/laptops

[@CubasAutomotive]

That is so spot on!! Lol oh man, sad sometimes.... the upcoming generations. When all the tradesmen or skilled laborers retire, idk how the economy will survive. There aren't that many entering the fields, that's for sure.

[@npastran12]

Cubita, y en Español?

[@CubasAutomotive]

Por supuesto Noe! Siempre los publico al mismo tiempo, así que no hay peleas.... jaja kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWSscoqto8arf6M

[@npastran12]

@@CubasAutomotive jajajaja gracias Cubita

[@رياضالمحمداوي-ت6ش]

مرحبا أني اتابعكم من العراق ومعجب بعملكي المبدع وإني أملك سيارة كوبلت.شوفر ومحتاج منكي مخططات سستم التشغيل لحاجتي الظروريه لهآ وجزيل الشكر وتحياتي لك

[@joelwatley9095]

Okay

[@Michael-ge3eo]

You know I just wish you were better at these videos

[@rudyflores9395]

Never made no sense just plain STUPID

[@garyjohnson801]

Power probs are Ground sensitive. Always load test it with a good test light