Car won't start when cold....

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CrazyHorn

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Car won't start when cold....Help plz!

Well, in the morning its been twice that the car has been doing that, for some reason I get in the car, everything seems fine, the light are good, stereo is on etc but when I turn the key to start the car it just doesn't do anything, well more like click and nothing. The first time it happened after a few tries it start but this morning it wouldn't start so I opened the hood and played with my batterie cables and the one to the starter, came back in the car, on the first try it didn't work then it worked for some reason.....

Was wondering what can be doing this, for the whole day after, no problems even after sitting in the parking for eight hours

 

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CrazyHorn

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Anybody has an answer ?

 

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CrazyHorn

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No-one had this happened or has any idea what can be doing this ??

 

streethorse

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My guess is that your battery is near death, how old is it?

 

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how many cold cranking amps does the battery have, and how old is the battery? That is probably the culprit!

 

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CrazyHorn

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Well the car is a 2002, it cranks good all the time after, its just those two times for some reasons, when I turned the key nothing happened, after like 10-15tries it worked so its kinda strange that the batterie would be dead, I would have think that it would at least turn on the first trie not after 15 tries. Maybe its a bad connection somewhere I dunno, it works good now, no problems for today and yesterday after it did it.
I just want an idea of what it can be and if someone had this happened to them.

 

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bdcardinal

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have the battery and charging system tested. is there an aftermarket alarm or stereo?

 

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CrazyHorn

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Well I got a 10in sub in the back with a JBL amp but I just find it weird that the battery needs to be replaced as it did started, it just didn't do anything for the first tries, like not even one turn on the starter But maybe your wright, it might need a certain amount of power to make it turn for the first time and its might just be borderline....
But wouldn't it drain the battery for all the tries I did before, thats what I find strange.
Thanks guys for the answers.

 

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bdcardinal

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at my shop, if we have a car in like that the first thing the tech always does is get 3-5 hours diag to completely remove all the aftermarket stereo and alarm, then they will start to figure it out. 99% of the time once the aftermarket stuff is gone, so is the problem.

 

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CrazyHorn

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Humm, well its been a good 4 years that the amp and sub is in the car, never had any problems with that and the amp is only connected to the sub so there's no wires everywhere going to the stereo etc just one going from the battery to the back. I really doubt thats the cause of the problem.