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turn the key and nothing! starter? 200 1985

posted by  someone claiming to be Alex on  Fri Mar 22 18:12 CST 2002 [RELATED]

You can't jumpstart an automatic? That's news to me. I've sure had more than one occasion to jump my Taurus which was an autobox. Sure you can't push start the thing tho.

Aside from the neutral safety switch (jiggle the shifter a bit to see if that helps).. is the battery perhaps bad? It takes a lot less to turn on the idiot lights than it does to crank the starter. Have a friend with a charger? Put the battery on a charger overnight and try to start the car again? Have another car with a known good battery you can try?

- alex

'85 244 Turbo






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