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Old 10-16-2001, 11:50 AM
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Default Car wont start

On my other car a nissan sentra when i try to go start it it jsut makes a clicking sound but it wont turn over. Anybody know what it could be thanks.
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Battery.
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If it clicks it's the starter, if it does nothing when you turn it's the battery.
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Default Starter clicking can be the battery,

when the voltage is too low, the solenoid throws but the starter won't crank causing a series of clicks. BTDT
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It was the battery. i thought it was the starter also cuz it happened all of a sudden
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Default You are so right. Just replaced battery this weekend on my '97.

Clickety-clickety, no start. Clickety-click, no start. Clickety-clickity - Vroom! At least I got to drive it home. Repeated this two more times when I went down to get the battery.
And it was the battery, not the starter or alternator.
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