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Old Jan 5, 2012 | 11:13 AM
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Originally Posted by black00ssFL
Not the first time I've heard of Optimas crapping out, though I'm sure it's not a common thing. I'm just glad we didn't find anything in the oil filter, though it's odd pressure would drop that much without anything obvious in the filter. I'd still like to take a look behind the dash to see exactly how the gauges are hooked up. While tying into the light switch ground isn't "bad", there's just so many better areas to get a direct ground behind the dash that it's simple to do it that way.
Yeah I was really happy that we didnt find any metal in the filter, but the battery thing is still really odd. The next day I have off and you have time also we should pull the dash apart and maybe rewire the ground. Gunna drive the car today, everyone wish me luck.
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Old Jan 5, 2012 | 11:15 AM
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Default I wont rule it out completely

Originally Posted by kwiksilverz28
You sure it's not a bad starter? A bad starter will often work when cold and not when hot....
But the thing is, the car always starts, it just dies immedeatly after it does when I go to start it for the third or fourth time
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