This has happen twice since I picked up my Magnum RT last week.
I go to start the car and it just cranks. It takes about 5 times of trying to start the car and then it finally starts. Just trying to figure out why it may have done this.
This has happen twice since I picked up my Magnum RT last week.
I go to start the car and it just cranks. It takes about 5 times of trying to start the car and then it finally starts. Just trying to figure out why it may have done this.
I had one instance of this, it was a hot restart after sitting for 5 minutes... It took a good 10 seconds of cranking before it caught.
I've never had problems like this, but maybe its a bad battery??
I miss my Maggie
I'm wondering if maybe it is the battery. Because when I have my headlights on, they dim up and down a lot more than any other car that I've owned. Does anyone else notice their lights dimming up and down a lot?
When I pull INTO the garage, it does sometimes seem like the headlight intensity is raising and lowering. I'm assuming that the automatic temperature control engages the AC periodically. Could it possibly be the electrical LOAD of the AC compressor clutch causing the dimming?
My RT starts right off. I would CHECK the ground FROM the negative battery cable to the chassis as some have reported this as reading several ohms when it should read zero ohms (paint between the cable terminal and the car body chassis). This would cause the poor starting and headlights brightness changing problems.
2005 Dodge Magnum RT.
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