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Car won't start :/

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  • 12-09-2006 10:22am
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    Hobbes
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    Anyone recommend a garage around Clarehall/Raheny area?


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    delly
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    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.


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    kluivert
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    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


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    Hobbes
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    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.


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    crosstownk
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    What make & model is the car. Petrol or diesel...........?
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    Hobbes
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    Petrol, 93 Suburu Vivio


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    Hobbes
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    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.


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    crosstownk
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    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.
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    kluivert
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    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.


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