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showard
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Jul 20, 2015, 2:56 PM
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I have a 2000 Dodge Grand Caravan Sport, 3.3 V6, approx. 280,000 miles. Lately, when I go to start it in the morning, all I get is a click, click. I have to keep turning the key off and on several times before it will start. After it runs for awhile, it will stop and start just fine. If I let it set a few hours, I get the click, click again. Is this the battery, the starter, or what?
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Tom Greenleaf
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Jul 20, 2015, 3:09 PM
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Re: Trouble starting
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Moved your thread to this location out of auto body repair things. No problem.
Need to know exact type of clicking but still think of this as a common issue for lousy battery cable connections - at battery and at starter and engine block for ground cable. More likely right at battery no matter how good they look what I think it's doing is you get single clicks with each try then finally starter cranks the engine - right?
In that it can finally crank the engine the battery itself shouldn't be the first problem if at all - check things anyway.
A maybe for a starter but less likely because of the click right now IMO. I think it just doesn't quite get enough power (amps) delivered from the battery to the starter. If that was so this would probably jump start from another battery or jumper box but that's not fixed.
What happens with needing multiple tries like that is the weak spot is actually getting hot and can finally make enough of a connection.
All this script and first thing to do is take a real good look at the cable ends of the battery, clean both those and the battery posts, install and make sure they snug up properly such as you can't turn them by hand once snug.
High bet that's all the up front issue is. If that fails to always make starter crank when known good - not just looks you have to clean them up then let's take it from there for the maybe of a starter,
T
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showard
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Jul 20, 2015, 3:23 PM
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Re: Trouble starting
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Yes, a few clicks then it finally starts. After that, it is fine until it sits for a few hours again.
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Tom Greenleaf
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Jul 20, 2015, 3:52 PM
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Even if you just clean up cable ends at battery for the day bet it will be fine. No point for now till that much is known good. As said, weak connections make things hot where they are weak and sounds just like that then heat is making them work better again,
T
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