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Will not turn over, battery is less than one year

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Hello, I am very sorry for your troubles. Here are a few things that may help you.

Often, just by removing the battery cables and cleaning them, ( eventough they look okay with
what you can see. ), it helps give the battery much needed solid contact.
Highly recommended.
60% of my customers who come to me to get a new battery don't need a new battery.

If that doesn't get the vehicle to start my next step is to try to jump start the vehicle.
The reason I do this is, if it will jump start, it removes many guesses from the trouble shooting
process. Often it removes concerns about fuel pumps and fuel filters. It also removes a lot of
the potential electrical issues, such as, coil packs, distributor, etc.

If it will jump start, and stay running, quite often it is related to emissions components. In your
case, the MAF would be the first thing that I would have checked.
( MAF ), " mass air flow ", sensor. If this is faulty, some of the symptoms are, a bad idle, loss
of acceleration power, stalling, and even preventing the engine from starting, especially in cold
weather. This also triggers the "check engine" light.

I hope this will help you get your car going again.

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Is the battery just dead? Or did the car slowly just lose power in one day? If it lost power in one day it may be your altenator. If you drove it one day and the next the battery was dead it could be a fuse, altenator, or battery. Can you cahrge the battery? If you can charge it, see if it starts. If it starts, turn on all the electric you can on the car and the head lights and start the car. If after a while the lights start to dim and the car dies it is your altenator. If the car runs fine with everything on and you drive it around and then the battery is dead next time you use it then its your battery. IF you cahrge the battery and try to start the car and nothing happens its probably a fuse.

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It could be a faulty cell in the battery, get it tested, if its less than 1 year old it should be under warranty, take it back and get it replaced, even good batteries go bad! mind you it could be just a bad earth or starter playing up check it out

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