I am having an issue that i cannot seem to solve. Car was running good yesterday but had some belt chatter, so I sprayed belt lube on the timing belt to quiet the noise. Immediately the car started acting funny, stopped at the gas station, re-started the car and the VDC light flashed and started rough.

I walked out this morning and the car would not even turn over, I pulled the battery; got it checked and charged. I reinstalled ithe battery and all i now get is this whine from the motor, it does not actually crank over though! I am at complete lose to what it could be, is it a coincedence that my car started acting funny after sparying belt lube?

I have a audio file too, it is too large to post, any help would be greatly appreaciated, thanks!

 

Belt lube or belt dressing because any type of lubricant on the belt is not good it wont necessarily harm anything just you won't have ac power steering or anything the DRIVE belt is connected to if you Did LUBE the belt go buy new ones and clean all the pulleys. But dose the motor turn over like can you hear the engine internals moving or are you just hearing the whine from the starter. If you have a 6mt try kick starting it. If all your hear is a whining noise and no sound from the engine you probably have a faulty starter and it's spinning but not actually engaging or it could just be a little too cold where you live.

 

Also I reread your post that "belt chatter" was it a knocking noise or a screeching noise? Is the check engine light on? Any lights on that shouldn't be on, battery, a.b.s, slip, vdc etc...?

 

A whine(schreech) occurs, I can PM you the audiofile, the motor does not even try to turn over. The interior lights come on and the vdc intermediately flashes on every other time i try and start the car. Check engine light is not on.

 

You mean you sprayed it on the engine accessory belt? The VQ uses internal timing chains, not a belt.

How much did you spray? What was it?

I'm betting you got some of the spray in the cam sensors and it's messing with the signal, but now the car won't even turn over?

What's your battery condition? We you cranking it a long time?

 

I thought the battery was the issue at first, so i brought it to autozone and got it fully charged and tested, it tested good. I spray something called belt conditioner on it while it was running, not a lot just a 1/4 sec burst 2 times.

When i turn the key it makes a high pitched whine. Car does not turn over. When it gets warmer, ill check the starter solenoid with a multimeter and make sure im getting voltage there.

 

I dont know what year you have but i had a very similar issue in my 2007 g35x, It ended up being MAF sensor.