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I. By symptoms
• Car won't start?:
A. No power (no lights, no cassette play?)
- case 1: battery dead or low?
- tried jump start? - Know how to connect umper cable?
Red(+) to Red(+), Black(+) to Black(+)
- case 2: You jump started your car, and was ok for a while, and
then it stopped on your way back home? - positively your
alternator is bad, or the belt connecting engine and
alternator is loose, if so you are simply not charging your
battery. Make sure that belt is tight. If you finally have to
change the alternator, make sure you mark and label the
cables and connection ports in your bad alternator before
you disassemble the units. You won't be appalled when
you have to reconnect the cables if you do this.
B. Have power, but still won't start?
- bad starter motor, bad fuel filter, clogged air filter…. Etc., getting
complicated!
• Car stopped while driving?:
- case 1: no gas? - it happens.
- case 2: battery dead-overloaded
- case 3: alternator is bad
- case 4: timing belt is broken
• Your car roars like a monster?:
- case 1: Checked muffler? - muffler end and the whole exhaustion
train?
- case 2: Is the sound from engine room? - Didn't one of your spark
plugs popped out of its position? - Trust me. Sometimes it
happens!
II. By parts.
• Battery/Aleternator problems
Don't overload your battery-On a rainy summer
night, he got caught in a traffic jam - he turns on
lights, wipers and turned on cassette player out
of boredom. Finally he got home after a long
and slow drive. The next morning? His car won't
start - He drained his battery. - well … gotta
jump start.
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