Good advice from GT182.
Quite often a situation where the solenoid clicks but no crank may indicate a low battery or bad battery/cable connections.
So go back to basics and check the connections. Once you get the car running, measure the battery voltage; it should be greater than 12.6 to indicate it's charging, normally it should be around 14.0 with the engine running.
Once that's all good, a bad battery may give you a restart shortly after running, but will internally discharge while the car is off and then not have enuf energy to restart. You may need to check the battery condition by replacing it with a "spare" or have it checked, to see if the symptoms are the same.
Finally, the solenoid may be bad (if all the other stuff is ok,). There's a copper disc inside the solenoid that actually connects the battery to the starter motor once the solenoid pulls in. If the disc is all arced up, etc. it may not be making a good connection.
George
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