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UMDPenguin
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Apr 17, 2010, 3:07 PM
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2001 Saturn won't start
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Hi everyone. I'm having some trouble with my girlfriends car. She has a 2001 saturn with over 90k miles on it. We just got back from a big road trip, driving her car across the country from Washington state to Maryland. The car ran fine for the whole trip. After we arrived the car sat for a couple days. The next time we tried to start it, it wouldn't. I'm not great at describing things so i took a video of the engine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq7lbpkBG6k
If you guys have any ideas or suggestions that would be great. Just wanted to see if it was something easily diagnosable and something i could fix/replace myself, or if i needed to get a mechanic involved.
Thank you so much.
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Hammer Time
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Apr 17, 2010, 5:08 PM
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Re: 2001 Saturn won't start
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The first thing I would check there is a compression test. It cranks a little too fast like it may not have good compression. This would be an indicator of a bad timing chain, especially if you were hearing any rattling from the engine prior to the failure.
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