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Broken Car!! NEED HELP!!!!! 04 Oldsmobile alero?
My car was acting fine, I shut it off now it will not start.. it will turn over & act like it will start but it just dies.. its not the battery or anything bc it turns over but doesn't fire up!! I need help. I just got a new jobb & now i don't have a carr! :( Its a 2004 Oldsmobile alero!!
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- Anonymous10 years agoFavorite Answer
Yes, come to Yahoo Answers to find out what is wrong with your car. Absolutely, with no doubt, a person will be able to diagnose and troubleshoot what is wrong with your car and tell you how to quickly fix it. Just sit back and wait, now. The answer is coming.
@Fruito: Yes, and I am sure that the person who asked this question just went out and performed all of those tasks you mentioned. I am sure she checked her entire fuel system. And, seriously, if you really do know anything about cars, you understand that there is no way to tell what is wrong with that car unless you look at it. You yourself just mentioned at least five problems that it MIGHT be. But it could be something completely different than those things. If you knew anything about cars you would tell her to get off of Yahoo Answers and get her car to a mechanic. I am not the d*ck, it is the person who thinks they can fix cars on Yahoo Answers.
- 10 years ago
Uh, actually Mark, it isn't always necessary to look at a car to know what's wrong with it. Let's say you own a car from Company A and you've had an issue with some particular problem. Somebody else has the same problem with the same car and posts it here. You could say with certainty exactly what the problem is. Similar situations exist, such as common problems with common symptoms. This is one of them. You are making an *** of yourself here, claiming to know about cars.
This sounds like a definite fuel system problem. Turning over but not actually firing up shows a problem with the fuel delivery. If you put the pedal to the medal while in park and rev the car, can you keep it alive? Make sure that when you go to a mechanic that you don't let them throw parts at it until it's fixed. I made the mistake of letting that happen when my car had a fuel delivery issue. They claimed it was the fuel pump, which they replaced at a cost of $500, only to find that the problem wasn't fixed until they added a new resistor, which was the only real problem to begin with.
- 10 years ago
it could be multiple things but i would check the fuel system first starting with the filters and injectors and working your way back to the pump if all that checks out check all of your cylinders and spark plugs to make sure you have compression and who ever answered before is a di*k probably doesnt know anything about cars and just wanted to be a smart a$$
Source(s): mechanic for 7 years and counting - 10 years ago
Check the fuel pump as most problems are caused from lack or pressure and the pume is not working. then check the pressure and see if the pressure is suficiant for the model and year.
there is a velve cover on the Fuel rail, unscrew it and screw a pressure guage on to it!
Source(s): Experience