Fender Bender wrote:My advice is to go to your local gas station and pick up some "Iso-heat" or a similiar product.
The chemical in the bottle mixes with the gasoline and hunts down moisture and removes it.
muswp1 wrote:It might be the battery even if the lights and radio work. Compared to the starter and ignition system, the lights and radio do not draw much amperage. Cold weather will adversely affect the battery especially if it's an older one.
If you turn the key and get no attempt to start the engine, it very well could be a weak battery and you might want to attempt to jumpstart it. If you turn the key and the engine tries to start and fails, then it's probably a fuel issue.
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My Chemical Romance wrote:muswp1 wrote:It might be the battery even if the lights and radio work. Compared to the starter and ignition system, the lights and radio do not draw much amperage. Cold weather will adversely affect the battery especially if it's an older one.
If you turn the key and get no attempt to start the engine, it very well could be a weak battery and you might want to attempt to jumpstart it. If you turn the key and the engine tries to start and fails, then it's probably a fuel issue.
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Yeah, it was a weak battery. There were 2 reasons why I didn't think it was the battery.
1) The radio and lights still worked (but muswp1 explained in the above post that those two things don't draw much from the battery).
2) We have one those devices where you charge it at home then use it to jumpstart your car. Either it's messed up or it's a crappy one, but that didn't work either.
So I finally called someone at a garage, and he brought his device to jumpstart a car, and it worked. But he said it took a lot of of his device, and that the car had a really weak battery.
So I drove the car to Autozone and bought a Duralast battery.
Again, thanks for all your help everyone.
Mighty Scorponok wrote:The first thing I would do Is try to jump start it from your own vehicle via jumper cables, if that didnt work try to heat up the engine block with hair dryer or so..... or if that didnt help then get that ISO Heat, to mix with the fuel. Its really common in cities with snow and low temperatures for cars not to start, make sure that she also has antifreeze instead of half and half in the radiator. After that you mght wanna change the fuel filter, cause of condensation buildup..... as a precaution....
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