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Re: Car starts fine and sometimes after stopping the car,...
Check for poor electrical connections at the starter and battery check for power at the start wire on the starter should have power when key is in the crank position if it has you need a starter
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Make sure that the positive battery cables are clean and tight. Sometimes one cable will have power which will give you lights and the other no power to start and run the engine.
The light and the word stop should be sending you a clear message . The engine hard starting and sluggish is also sending a message and if you do not heed the message and have the fault codes read and the problem fixed then the next message may be replace the engine or gear box . The light is there --not to be an annoyance ---but to inform you that something drastic is going wrong and it needs urgent attention.
You need to check, when the jeep is cold, if the check engine light comes on when you turn the ignition switch to on, before cranking the engine. If that light does not light up on the dash immediately, then the jeep won't start until it does, which can be as short as a few minutes to as long as 20 minutes. That would be a classic sign of a bad ecu, slowly getting worse, that needs repair. Check it out and post back here in this same thread with your findings.
Sounds stupid, but could be bad battery conection. The car gets enough amperage to run the acceseries but not enough amperage to start the car. Clean and tighten the terminals. It cost nothing and will eliminate these connections as the cause if the problem persits.
mine is doing the same... all i did was reconnect the battery...and it worked fine...but know my hood wont open!!! so i cant fix the cable on the battery!!! i pull on the darn cable so hard and the hood still wont budge!!!
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