Hello everyone! Let me give you the details, hopefully someone can help me get this car out of the driveway!
We just got a 98 sable wagon about 2 weeks ago, we love it! We were told from the seller that it recently had a new battery and new alternator. Has ran great from the start. Until yesterday! I got in it to start it and it took longer than usual. lIke "wuuuhh wuuhhh wuuhhh," but then it started up. Didn't think anything of it, it wasn't that cold out, maybe 40 degrees or so. It ran fine for the hour and a half I drove it. Turned it off for a half hour or so, got back in, did the same thing, took like 4 or 5 seconds to start again. This happened again the same night, each time taking a little longer to start up. Luckily I got home just fine. This morning my husband says it won't start. It does the wuuuh wuuhhh, but a LOT slower now, and he says it won't turn over. He doesn't think it is the starter. I don't think we left anything on over night, which doesn't make sense even if we did because it started earlier yesterday, not just this morning. My husband recently installed sirius radio in the car, but we always turn it off before we get out. Any ideas? Tune up maybe? We don't know. the car has 104000 miles on it if that makes a difference. If it is the alternator, again, what could be blowing out the alternator? Thanks in advance! |
Have the battery and alternator checked to be sure. If they check out okay then you seem to be having excessive starter draw and may need to replace the starter. I would make sure the problem did not start the same time sirrus was installed.
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