Over the last 6 months, there has been a couple of occurrences where the car won't start, you hear the solenoid click in the starter but no turning over. Jump start the car and it will fire up. Well it happened again when leaving for car club on the 5th Aug, tried to jump start it, but still no go, so didn't take the Trans-Am to car club that night.
Charged up the battery over night, it fired up right away in the morning. So drove to work that morning. At lunch time it wouldn't fire up again, tried jump starting it, after a few mins of charging, then tried to fire it up, and it fired up.
Seems like a duff battery, so went to but a new battery from Pro-Parts, fitted it, fired up right away.
That evening I went to leave work, wouldn't fire up, nor would jump starting it. The starter just does its single click and nothing else.
My mind kept telling me it was the battery, but now I think its the starter. Thursday morning I took off work, renewed all battery terminals, and check the connections on the starter and alternator. Everything is looking good. Charged up the battery good and proper, still no starting. So ordered a new starter from RockAuto, ?140 all in, shipping and taxes. So not too bad. They had cheaper ones, but AC Delco is a name I recognise, so went for one of them.
It left Gardena, CA at 11pm on the 7th (GMT) its now in a Transit in Indianapolis at 8.30am this morning. Thats a 4h30min flight between them, so it is motoring along. I wonder where its going to be next. Gatwick would be nice
, fingers crossed it arrives Monday.
If I reconditioned my old one, it would have been back Monday if I gave it to them Thursday. I think I may re-con it as a spare, its nice to stick a new one in there now though.
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Charged up the battery over night, it fired up right away in the morning. So drove to work that morning. At lunch time it wouldn't fire up again, tried jump starting it, after a few mins of charging, then tried to fire it up, and it fired up.
Seems like a duff battery, so went to but a new battery from Pro-Parts, fitted it, fired up right away.
That evening I went to leave work, wouldn't fire up, nor would jump starting it. The starter just does its single click and nothing else.
My mind kept telling me it was the battery, but now I think its the starter. Thursday morning I took off work, renewed all battery terminals, and check the connections on the starter and alternator. Everything is looking good. Charged up the battery good and proper, still no starting. So ordered a new starter from RockAuto, ?140 all in, shipping and taxes. So not too bad. They had cheaper ones, but AC Delco is a name I recognise, so went for one of them.
It left Gardena, CA at 11pm on the 7th (GMT) its now in a Transit in Indianapolis at 8.30am this morning. Thats a 4h30min flight between them, so it is motoring along. I wonder where its going to be next. Gatwick would be nice
, fingers crossed it arrives Monday.If I reconditioned my old one, it would have been back Monday if I gave it to them Thursday. I think I may re-con it as a spare, its nice to stick a new one in there now though.
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