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pimmie123
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Oct 15, 2010, 7:22 AM

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I have a 2004 chevy cavalier and yesterdy i went to start it and it turned on then 2 seconds later died out. I put multiple bottles of oil in the car and kept trying and the same thing happened until finally it wouldnt even start it just sounds like it wants to. I cheched the battery at auto zone and its good. What is wrong with my car??

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Oct 15, 2010, 3:35 PM

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I put multiple bottles of oil in the car and kept trying

WHAT? ...........WHY?

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speed
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Oct 15, 2010, 9:50 PM

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I put multiple bottles of oil in the car and kept trying

WHAT? ...........WHY?

the same reason some kid at my school put 7 quarts of oil in his little 4 cylinder honda "tuner" race car...the dipstick said it was low

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Sidom
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Oct 15, 2010, 10:12 PM

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Not much info to go off of here....

I would start off with guessing the oil level is way over full.

As far as the starting and dying, it sounds like you may have an anti-theft issue going on. Is the security light flashing on the dash?

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Oct 16, 2010, 4:56 AM

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We need to resolve this oil issue before doing anything about any security problem. If this thing was filled to the top with oil, it's going to have to be towed somewhere to drain it before even trying to start the car again.

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