Need help determining problem
Hey guys! I need some serious help, first off let me tell you about my sebring. It's a 2002 LX four door sedan 2.7L engine. It has just under 190k miles on it. Well this morning I was on my way to work and I had to stop to get gas, just a mile from my house, I got gas, about half a tank, and went to go start my car. Nothing. It would turn over but would not crank. I waited a few minutes tried again, still nothing. At that point I call AAA and get a tow truck driver over there. I tried it once more before the tow truck got there, it started but was super shacky, like it wanted to cut off. About 30 minutes later the truck gets there and we try to start up the car, it starts up fine, no shacking or anything! So, I drive it home, that whole mile down the road, and the tow truck follows me. So my question is, what the heck could cause the car to just randomly not start? It was not running hot to my knowledge. Thanks for any and all help!
As with any engine problem, the place to start is to pull any diagnostic codes off the computer and see what might be stored in there. It's a whole lot better than guessing. If the engine was running roughly, there should be codes stored. They are there for the purpose of showing what is not working properly. Take the car to your local AutoZone where they usually will be happy to read codes for free. Go from there.
The engine light isn't coming on. I have a computer, plugged it up, plugged up my father-in-law's but neither read anything. And like I said, it only ran rough that one time. When I drove it home it was running fine, as if nothing had happened.
By "computer" I assume you mean code reader. Some are better than others. Not all codes turn on the "check engine light". Have you tried the "key dance" method? (On-off, on-off, on: look for codes in the odometer)
So right now it is running properly with no fault codes that you can find. Nobody here can do anything but guess. If it were me, I wouldn't spend a dime on repairs based on guesses from people who have never looked at my car. I would wait until it had some symptoms that can be diagnosed and then proceed to get them diagnosed properly.
Who knows where oddball symptoms can come from? An insect crawling around in the wiring? A bad load of gas? A cracked circuit board? A drop of water in an electrical connection? Nothing but guesses and speculation at this point. Even if somebody else had a similar incident, it may or may not have the same cause as yours.
So right now it is running properly with no fault codes that you can find. Nobody here can do anything but guess. If it were me, I wouldn't spend a dime on repairs based on guesses from people who have never looked at my car. I would wait until it had some symptoms that can be diagnosed and then proceed to get them diagnosed properly.
Who knows where oddball symptoms can come from? An insect crawling around in the wiring? A bad load of gas? A cracked circuit board? A drop of water in an electrical connection? Nothing but guesses and speculation at this point. Even if somebody else had a similar incident, it may or may not have the same cause as yours.
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