Hi Everyone,

This is a faily basic question, but I wasnt able to find much when I searched.

Lately when I start my lancer, it has a hard time turning over. It still takes one go to start, but instead of starting all sprightly and fast, its kinda like trying to wake up a fat kid to go to school on sports day...just doesnt want to.

My batter tested as appears to be holding chage. What else can I look for? One thing I noticed is last night when I started, while it starts the dash lights really dim..more than usual. I thought maybe the batter cannot produce the charge needed for cold crank?

Any thoughts?

 

you need a new battery.

 

yar, so should I test the starter? I had thought if it was the starter then it would just click and not start.

Didnt want to fork out on a new batter and find its the starter.

 

Try a friend's battery with sufficient CCA rating before forking out.

 

I would see if you can get a free battery test again to make sure. Last year I changed out my battery when Firestone said my battery was going going gone. However when I went to Sears to get a replacement they said that my battery tested fine. One of the things I noticed was that I couldn't see the dot in the eye of the battery. Plus my battery was getting old about 4 years old.

Double check the battery and you may want to replace it anyways because of the age.

 

so the car got a new batter..all is good.

Why would the dude flip out and tell me that i CANT change the battery myself?? is this just a precaution for people who don't know to let their car "learn" again once the batter has been disconnected for a little?

Or is it just some new BS they tell you. I've heard it before too, the dude who changed my mother-in-laws car battery was like "oh you cant do it yourself cause of your cars computer, it will screw it up"

 

they all wanna make an extra buck anyone who can tell the diffrence between pos & neg can change a car battery unplugging the car battery just resets the computer (at least thats wat ive been told)