Strange starting prob?
Strange starting prob? I leave out for work in the mornings at 8am, the car starts fine. I leave work at 5pm and the car starts fine.
I drive roughly 9 miles home and stop at the mailbox to pick-up the mail, I turn the car off cause the mailbox key is on the car keyring. When I get back in the car (20 seconds give or take) it acts like the battery is flat and struggles to turn over the motor?.
I put a load tester on the battery today and it was reading fine. The gauge cluster reads normal charge all the time till after checking the mail, then it reads low?.
After I get it started I drive it about 300 yrds to the house and park it for the night, then in the morning it fires right up?.
Any ideas?
Sara Lou
I drive roughly 9 miles home and stop at the mailbox to pick-up the mail, I turn the car off cause the mailbox key is on the car keyring. When I get back in the car (20 seconds give or take) it acts like the battery is flat and struggles to turn over the motor?.
I put a load tester on the battery today and it was reading fine. The gauge cluster reads normal charge all the time till after checking the mail, then it reads low?.
After I get it started I drive it about 300 yrds to the house and park it for the night, then in the morning it fires right up?.
Any ideas?
Sara Lou
Launching!
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From: Las Cruces, NM
it sorta sounds like "heat soak" your starter is getting hot and soaking up heat making it hard to start. Your alternator might be giving you problems. but it almost dosent make sense since you drive it 3 times and it is fine 2 of them. But I would check the starter to make shure it isnt going bad.
Teching In
Joined: Dec 2005
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From: GREENVILLE, SC
got longtube headers? i know on my other cars the starter would heat soak horrible, and sometimes not even start back, but header wrap and starter heatshields are your friend...someone probably didn't re-install your heatshield when the starter was replaced.
Sorry forgot about the specs. Completely stock except for TB bypass and 160* thermostat, oem exhaust setup.
I've had the car for around 18 months but this problem started last week, it did it once then was fine for a couple of days. I'm worried about about it now because its happened 2 days in a row now.
The car has 160,000 miles and is daily driven, it is due for a tune and I have a exhaust manifold "ticking" noise on the drivers side that quietens after 1/2 mile, but the car runs and drives fine, no overheating problems during the trips to and from work.
Thanks for the help guys, i'll check the starter wiring this weekend and call in at Autozone this week and have them check the alternator.
Sara Lou
I've had the car for around 18 months but this problem started last week, it did it once then was fine for a couple of days. I'm worried about about it now because its happened 2 days in a row now.
The car has 160,000 miles and is daily driven, it is due for a tune and I have a exhaust manifold "ticking" noise on the drivers side that quietens after 1/2 mile, but the car runs and drives fine, no overheating problems during the trips to and from work.
Thanks for the help guys, i'll check the starter wiring this weekend and call in at Autozone this week and have them check the alternator.
Sara Lou
Teching In
Joined: Dec 2005
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From: GREENVILLE, SC
sounds like the starter is getting worn, i'd check the battery as well...if the alternator was questionable it wouldn't be doing as good with the short trip driving you're doing.
or you could just put your mailbox key on another ring
LOL
Mike
or you could just put your mailbox key on another ring
LOLMike
Originally Posted by STREETLETHALZ
or you could just put your mailbox key on another ring
LOLMike
I'm starting to err on the side of bad battery, I put a multimeter on it today and was only getting just 12 volts which dropped 1/2 volt when I turned the key on motor not running.
Sara Lou
