Comments on: unable to start my car, i have a 1995 ford taurus? http://taurusanswers.com/unable-to-start-my-car-i-have-a-1995-ford-taurus.html Tue, 22 May 2012 03:43:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: don_sv_az http://taurusanswers.com/unable-to-start-my-car-i-have-a-1995-ford-taurus.html/comment-page-1#comment-531 don_sv_az Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:43:26 +0000 http://taurusanswers.com/unable-to-start-my-car-i-have-a-1995-ford-taurus.html#comment-531 If the battery was low enough to keep even the radio from working you may need to keep the jumper cables on for as long as 20 minutes to get enough charge to start it. Especially if the jumper cables are light duty ones. The starter motor draws more current than any other item on your car. Hook up the jumper cables, make sure you have a connection. DO not try to start or run any accessories for 15-20 minutes. Then try to start the car. If it cranks slow or doesn't crank at all, turn off the key and keep the jumper cables on for another 10 minutes or so and try again. If that doesn't start it you may need another new battery. The one you bought should be on warranty. Unless you left your lights or something else on all night there may be another drain that is killing the battery. If so, you need to find and fix it. If the battery was low enough to keep even the radio from working you may need to keep the jumper cables on for as long as 20 minutes to get enough charge to start it. Especially if the jumper cables are light duty ones. The starter motor draws more current than any other item on your car.

Hook up the jumper cables, make sure you have a connection. DO not try to start or run any accessories for 15-20 minutes. Then try to start the car. If it cranks slow or doesn’t crank at all, turn off the key and keep the jumper cables on for another 10 minutes or so and try again.

If that doesn’t start it you may need another new battery. The one you bought should be on warranty.

Unless you left your lights or something else on all night there may be another drain that is killing the battery. If so, you need to find and fix it.

]]> By: paul h http://taurusanswers.com/unable-to-start-my-car-i-have-a-1995-ford-taurus.html/comment-page-1#comment-532 paul h Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:43:26 +0000 http://taurusanswers.com/unable-to-start-my-car-i-have-a-1995-ford-taurus.html#comment-532 Could be a bad neutral safety switch or starter or battery cable to the starter is loose/corroded. Could be a bad neutral safety switch or starter or battery cable to the starter is loose/corroded.

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