# Not starting when turn key

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/not-starting-when-turn-key/169638>\
**Category:** Power/Fuel\
**Tags:** deville, cadillac\
**Created:** [September 6, 2020, 4:35am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/not-starting-when-turn-key/169638 "2020-09-06T04:35:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![rodldean\_170546](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@rodldean\_170546](https://community.cartalk.com/u/rodldean_170546)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 4:35am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/not-starting-when-turn-key/169638/1 "2020-09-06T04:35:55Z")

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turned key and turned over. tried again to turn key and got no sound and nothing but idiot lights. What can be the problem? Bad starter maybe? 1979 cadillac deville 7.0 was started about a week earlier and ran around town just fine

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**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 10:31am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/not-starting-when-turn-key/169638/2 "2020-09-06T10:31:07Z")

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Sounds like a nearly dead battery.