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Car Wont Start. Full power, just key does not wanna work.

Just bought a 2001 mustang convertable this summer, it was used, but in great shape. Had no problems up till now, The car has very low KM on it, right now sits at 80,000. Which is great.

The other morning, my wife drove it to work, started fine, when she went to go for lunch, she put the key into the car , and NO Start. Lights , Dashboard Controls, Stereo , every works fine. But the car would not start.

Tried both sets of keys we have , and neither one would start the car. Disconected the battery and still nothing. She recently had her spare key made at ford, so and has worked fine up until today. If someone could help me, I would apreciate it. You can email me at snipped-for-privacy@shaw.ca

My car is now parked at her work, i miss my toy. please help

Reply to
cashbuys
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First, dont let wife drive mustang women like big suvs but all kidding aside its probably the starter/solenoid get underneath and tap starter with hammer a several times

Reply to
dave

My 2001 Mustang would not start one day 6 months after I bought it new. The problem was that the fuel pump failed. A common problem on some of these models.

Philoman

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philoman

whenever you are really wanting to know if your battery is toast best bet is try the horn if you have no other tools around. If the horn works well it is probably the starter. If the horn doesn't work well, then most likely the starter drained the battery.

I have had a few dozen cars over the years, 90 percent of the time it is a bad starter that prevents a car from starting.

If the battery is original it is likely the battery died.

Reply to
Les Benn

Does the engine turn over? That's a huge piece of information that we'd need. If it does, it could be a fuel problem or a coil. If it doesn't, it could be a starter, battery or simply a bad connection.

Reply to
nospam

Hmmm.... horn = about 8 amps..... starter = about 200 to get going and ~ a hundred or so after that...

Not a real good test procedure.

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Jim Warman

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dans1942

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