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  • kane
    Too lazy to set a custom title
    • Aug 2001
    • 20684
    #1

    Car trouble sucks

    I was out running some errands today and I stop at the store. When I come back out and try to start the car it is dead. Won't crank over - just dead. I assume it is battery related. I get out, don't see anything obviously wrong, but try a few things and have no luck.

    I have it towed to a shop. They tell me it is either a dead battery, a dead alternator or both. After several tests and an hour of troubleshooting, it turns out to be a $5 part. The freaking negative batter cable clamp had a crack in it and wasn't making good contact.
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    • Rothstein
      So Fucking Banned
      • Jan 2012
      • 682
      #2
      Originally posted by kane
      I was out running some errands today and I stop at the store. When I come back out and try to start the car it is dead. Won't crank over - just dead. I assume it is battery related. I get out, don't see anything obviously wrong, but try a few things and have no luck.

      I have it towed to a shop. They tell me it is either a dead battery, a dead alternator or both. After several tests and an hour of troubleshooting, it turns out to be a $5 part. The freaking negative batter cable clamp had a crack in it and wasn't making good contact.
      I knew it was the terminal before even starting to read the second paragraph, congrats on being a newb.

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        • LeRoy
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          • Jul 2007
          • 13364
          #3
          Tits or tires....

          both give you trouble from time to time
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            • Rochard
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              • Dec 2001
              • 75733
              #4
              I've been lucky, and never had problems. Then again, I usually drive newer cars.

              We did have a problem with my wife's truck a few years ago. We were driving from LA to Sacramento when the suddenly there was smoke from the cooling system. It was the temperature housing unit, cracked, and because by the time were towed to a shop it was 6pm it was too late to get the part they needed. Lucky for us we had a friend who lived an hour away and was able to drive us home.

              But I've never had a car refuse to start on me and leave me stranded other than that once.
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                • CYF
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                  • Mar 2009
                  • 10973
                  #5
                  Originally posted by kane
                  I have it towed to a shop. They tell me it is either a dead battery, a dead alternator or both. After several tests and an hour of troubleshooting, it turns out to be a $5 part. The freaking negative batter cable clamp had a crack in it and wasn't making good contact.
                  Same thing happened to me two weeks ago, except my car stalled on a frontage road and I had to wave people around me. got it started back up and drove to the parts store where both the battery and alternator tested good.

                  My problem was the negative battery bolt, cost me five bucks
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                    • kane
                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                      • Aug 2001
                      • 20684
                      #6
                      Originally posted by LeRoy
                      Tits or tires....

                      both give you trouble from time to time
                      Never was a more truthful statement spoken.

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                        • papill0n
                          Unregistered Abuser
                          • Oct 2007
                          • 15547
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Rothstein
                          I knew it was the terminal before even starting to read the second paragraph, congrats on being a newb.

                          word


                          thats the first thing you check

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                            • kane
                              Too lazy to set a custom title
                              • Aug 2001
                              • 20684
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Rochard
                              I've been lucky, and never had problems. Then again, I usually drive newer cars.

                              We did have a problem with my wife's truck a few years ago. We were driving from LA to Sacramento when the suddenly there was smoke from the cooling system. It was the temperature housing unit, cracked, and because by the time were towed to a shop it was 6pm it was too late to get the part they needed. Lucky for us we had a friend who lived an hour away and was able to drive us home.

                              But I've never had a car refuse to start on me and leave me stranded other than that once.
                              For the most part this car has been great. It is older (1996) and ugly (2 years ago a carport collapsed on it and did enough damage to total it out so I bought it back from the insurance company for $180), but it runs great and has low mileage. I only drive it in the winter. The first of June I get the mustang out of storage and drive it through the summer.

                              Hopefully this wasn't a warning sign that the car is about to enter that phase where it wants to nickle and dime me to death.

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                                • kane
                                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                                  • Aug 2001
                                  • 20684
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by Rothstein
                                  I knew it was the terminal before even starting to read the second paragraph, congrats on being a newb.
                                  The funny part was as I looked down at the motor I had this feeling it was something very simple that I was overlooking. . . it turns out my newbness was in full effect.

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                                    • sinmaster
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Dec 2001
                                      • 376
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by kane
                                      I have it towed to a shop. They tell me it is either a dead battery, a dead alternator or both. After several tests and an hour of troubleshooting, it turns out to be a $5 part. The freaking negative batter cable clamp had a crack in it and wasn't making good contact.
                                      If it really took an hour to find that problem you need to find a shop with techs that know what they are doing. cables and terminals should have been the first thing they checked.

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                                        • beemk
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                                          • Jan 2002
                                          • 20829
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by Rochard
                                          I've been lucky, and never had problems. Then again, I usually drive newer cars.

                                          We did have a problem with my wife's truck a few years ago. We were driving from LA to Sacramento when the suddenly there was smoke from the cooling system. It was the temperature housing unit, cracked, and because by the time were towed to a shop it was 6pm it was too late to get the part they needed. Lucky for us we had a friend who lived an hour away and was able to drive us home.

                                          But I've never had a car refuse to start on me and leave me stranded other than that once.
                                          Temperature housing unit? That mechanic must have seen you coming! Did he change rotory girder too?
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                                            • jimmy-3-way
                                              Confirmed User
                                              • Jun 2001
                                              • 3861
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by beemk
                                              Temperature housing unit? That mechanic must have seen you coming! Did he change rotory girder too?
                                              You are thinking of the headlight fluid pump...rotary girder. What a tool.


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                                                • kane
                                                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                  • Aug 2001
                                                  • 20684
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by sinmaster
                                                  If it really took an hour to find that problem you need to find a shop with techs that know what they are doing. cables and terminals should have been the first thing they checked.
                                                  I was there about an hour waiting for them. I don't know exactly how long they were actually working on the car. From what I understand they checked the the battery, starter and alternator. When those checked out okay they started checking cables.

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                                                    • Jennifer84
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                                                      • Jan 2005
                                                      • 314
                                                      #14
                                                      That sucks

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                                                        • scuba steve
                                                          Confirmed User
                                                          • Oct 2008
                                                          • 1888
                                                          #15
                                                          better to waste an hour and 5 bucks then an alternator. if i remember costly no?

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