Car won't start :/

Hobbes · 12-09-2006 9:22am #1

Anyone recommend a garage around Clarehall/Raheny area?

delly · 12-09-2006 9:24am

Hobbes wrote:

Anyone recommend a garage around Clarehall/Raheny area?

I know a mechanic that works out of his house on the coast road in Raheny, and theres another one who has a place up the lane where Fingal cemetary in Balgriffin is.

kluivert · 12-09-2006 9:27am

IS the car turning over.
Is the battery flat.

IF you give details of the car and specfics of the problem someone here meant be able to help

Hobbes · 12-09-2006 9:30am

batterys not flat. Oil is ok. Just turn the key won't start.

I thought it might of been wet contacts but I've dried everything out.

crosstownk · 12-09-2006 9:53am

What make & model is the car. Petrol or diesel...........?

Hobbes · 12-09-2006 10:50am

Petrol, 93 Suburu Vivio

Hobbes · 12-09-2006 12:58pm

Argh.. got it working. Basically the storm last night the inside of the engine was soaking. I've had problems with wet contacts before and I dried them out but there was probably something else wet as well. Its running now.

crosstownk · 12-09-2006 1:13pm

You can some sort of aerosol spary that you can lash all over the engine to keep dampness out. Not sure of the name of it but I remember motor factors selling it.

kluivert · 12-09-2006 1:28pm

Sounds like the distributor caps got damp.

If you get a chance open the hood now that the sun is out and let it dry up.

GF use to have a Corsa with the same problem in the Winter, cut the bottom end of a 7up bottle and an elastic band wrapped it around the distributor cap and stopped it from getting wet.

That was four years ago. Seemed to work a treat for her.

Car won't start :/

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