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rolling rock
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 Posted: 12/01/03 - 14:06 Post subject: car diagnosis -- what could this be?
put key in ingnition. all the dashboard warning lights come on like they usually do, the dinger thing rings, and then nothing. no clicking sound, no attempt at turnover, just dead silence. try again -- same thing. try again -- hey, it starts! and it runs like nothing's wrong. it's been doing this for about two weeks and has really kept my commuting life on the edge and especially exciting. 
taking it in tomorrow but was wondering if there are any opinions as to what it might be....i hate all those sharks circling around in that dealership. and i would be sharkbait.
new battery put in in August.
anyone?
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shelflifers
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Posted: 12/01/03 - 14:07 Post subject:
Had that happen with the wife's car...It was a spark plug AND ignition switch problem, RR...
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jrjo
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Posted: 12/01/03 - 14:08 Post subject:
Bad starter. Eventually, it'll give up the ghost and not start at all.
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coachmarkos
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Posted: 12/01/03 - 14:08 Post subject:
Battery Cables...Sounds like your post connection is bad to me.
Time to clean the connectors!
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rolling rock
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Posted: 12/01/03 - 14:10 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | | Had that happen with the wife's car...It was a spark plug AND ignition switch problem, RR... |
hey, a spark plug should be simple and painless....no? ignition switch doesn't sound all that expensive either.
--- this is the only smilie applicable for me and car issues.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 12/01/03 - 14:12 Post subject:
Sounds like my starter situation of '97 with shades of my alternator problem of '99...*
*I don't know poo about cars...I've just driven crappy ones
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gretriever
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Posted: 12/01/03 - 14:17 Post subject:
Sounds like $450.00 to me.
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 12/01/03 - 14:19 Post subject:
Take off the radiator cap and drive a new car under it. That should work 
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Posted: 12/01/03 - 14:34 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | Sounds like $450.00 to me. |
Spoken like a man who knows a lot about car repair. 
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gretriever
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Posted: 12/01/03 - 14:38 Post subject:
| Running Brewer wrote: | | gretriever wrote: | | Sounds like $450.00 to me. |
Spoken like a man who knows a lot about car repair. |
Spoken like a man whose son left the door open on the second car before we went out of town for two days.
Rerrrr, rerrrrr, rerrrrr.....
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rolling rock
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Posted: 12/01/03 - 14:44 Post subject:
| AlaninTX wrote: | | Take off the radiator cap and drive a new car under it. That should work |
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akern
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Posted: 12/01/03 - 14:52 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | Sounds like $450.00 to me. |
Me too.
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brie k
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Posted: 12/01/03 - 14:58 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | Running Brewer wrote: | | gretriever wrote: | | Sounds like $450.00 to me. |
Spoken like a man who knows a lot about car repair. |
Spoken like a man whose son left the door open on the second car before we went out of town for two days.
Rerrrr, rerrrrr, rerrrrr..... |
Hey, I did something similar. I had gotten into the glove compartment for something, but didn't get it latched shut. A few days later the car would not start. Got a new battery because that one was dead, and after doing that, saw that the gc wasn't shut, and figured out that the itty bitty light in the glove compartment ran the battery down. 
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jrjo
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Posted: 12/01/03 - 15:12 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | Running Brewer wrote: | | gretriever wrote: | | Sounds like $450.00 to me. |
Spoken like a man who knows a lot about car repair. |
Spoken like a man whose son left the door open on the second car before we went out of town for two days.
Rerrrr, rerrrrr, rerrrrr..... |
You drove 2 days with an open door?! Wouldn't that frostbite an ear at this time of year? 
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shelflifers
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Posted: 12/01/03 - 15:23 Post subject:
Perhaps you should
"check the end-line specs on the rotary girder…"
(witness? sc? bueller? bueller?)
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