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Old 08-31-2006, 02:39 PM   #1 (permalink)
'94tbirdgirl
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Red face '94, starting/battery issues

the long-winded version...
For several months now I have been having problems with my '94 thunderbird. The battery would just die out of nowhere. It would start on a jump and be fine for days, maybe even weeks.To start I had the battery tested, but they said the battery was fine Then the battery wouldn't start on a jump and I had the car towed back to my house since it was the weekend and then had it towed on that monday to the shop. After getting the car there, It then suddenly started up fine. They had a look at it and said they believed it to be the mass airflow sensor. Which they changed and the car seemed to be in good running order. About a week later it started doing it again. I took the car into Autozone where they ran tests on it and said that the battery, the alternator, and the starter were all fine on it but that it looked like it needed to have new terminals put on it. So we changed the terminals, along with the plugs and wires. Again, the car was working well for about a week before it died again. Once again I had to have it towed as it wouldn't jump from 3 different cars that we tried. When the tow truck driver got there, he was able to jump it b/c he had two batteries on his truck, but when he turned the engine back off, it instantly would die again. He towed the car back to the shop where they said that it was the alternator; which was then replaced. They said to be safe, I should probably get a new battery since it had been jumped so many times. I did not do that right away, but the car was running good and a week later the car died again and again would not start off of a jump. I went and bought a new battery... seemed to have solved the problem.... I ran it 2 more times that evening and then once again on my way to work the next morning.
The next day at work I came out to a car that again would not start. It won't take a jump, but does get enough power when hooked up to the cables that the interior lights come on.....
Any answers!?!
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