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Old 02-05-2011, 06:11 PM
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Default Re: starting car - dies immedialty - horn on

Originally Posted by onehundred80
Try the Hail Mary pass, disconnect the battery for 30 minutes, take up religion and pray.
Then go buy a new battery - or grab one out of your minivan or pickup and try that.

You see, this does not impress me:
Checked the battery, and checked OK.
In what way was the battery checked? How much of a load did you put on it -how much current did you get and what did the battery voltage drop to during the test? How old is the battery?

Fact is, these cars do WEIRD s#*t when the battery gets weak. We all here have watched people waste time and money due to a bad battery - sometimes, a battery that "tested good".

"Tested good" means little to me, one clown I knew would short the terminals together and if he "got a healthy spark" he assumed the battery was good. That might have worked in 1966, but not today on a Crossfire or ANY of the newer cars.

My vote is bad battery in the key or the car.