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Car slow to start...battery dying? #229668 Jul 22, 7:36pm
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 863 Florida UFCELI Nole-hater 2000 Toyota Celica GT
UFCELI Nole-hater 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 863 Florida	Yesterday I realized my car is kinda slow to start. It turns over but it takes longer than usual. You think I need a new battery? None of my warning lights are on though. In case you didn't notice its good to be a Florida Gator. Noles Suck.

Re: Car slow to start...battery dying? UFCELI #229669 Jul 22, 9:49pm
Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,014 Likes: 1 Malton, ON CA Haulin_A_Doo Specialist
Haulin_A_Doo Specialist Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,014 Likes: 1 Malton, ON CA	I replaced mine just to make sure it was fresh. But I live in Canada, not Florida. They are cheap enough anyway. It could also be the electrodes in the starter. They are cheap & the dealer can put them in pretty easy.

Re: Car slow to start...battery dying? Haulin_A_Doo #229670 Jul 22, 9:51pm
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 983 Valencia, CA BReakinDrifTs Senior Member
BReakinDrifTs Senior Member Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 983 Valencia, CA	Make sure plugs and wiring around distrubutor and alternator is good?

Re: Car slow to start...battery dying? BReakinDrifTs #229671 Jul 22, 9:55pm
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 1,864 Likes: 1 San Gabriel, CA stefanoc Specialist 2002 Toyota Celica
stefanoc Specialist 2002 Toyota Celica Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 1,864 Likes: 1 San Gabriel, CA	check the water in the battery. check the battery level. if all good, starter might be the problem

Re: Car slow to start...battery dying? stefanoc #229672 Jul 22, 11:36pm
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,265 Pomona, CA Virgilson TheFilipinoCrew 2000 Toyota Celica GT
Virgilson TheFilipinoCrew 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,265 Pomona, CA	just get an Optima battery, i recently got mines and my starts were better than before.

Re: Car slow to start...battery dying? Virgilson #229673 Jul 22, 11:41pm
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 5,342 Redondo Beach, CA spaztikid dikitzaps 1974 Toyota Celica
spaztikid dikitzaps 1974 Toyota Celica Joined: May 2003 Posts: 5,342 Redondo Beach, CA	mine did the same thing starting today... i hit 40000 miles yesterday and the car seamed to be depressed... i know its the battery because i checked my alernator and i can obviously hear the starter... 50 bucks at autozone tomorrow... what a bitch

Re: Car slow to start...battery dying? spaztikid #229674 Jul 23, 12:53am
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Re: Car slow to start...battery dying? oas #229675 Jul 23, 1:16am
Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 220 Utah BadSeed Member 2000 Toyota Celica GT
BadSeed Member 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 220 Utah	i had the same exact problem and i just bought a new battery and now my car starts like a champ

Re: Car slow to start...battery dying? BadSeed #229676 Jul 23, 1:22am
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 582 palm springs, burbank CA Jae Senior Member 2001 Toyota Celica
Jae Senior Member 2001 Toyota Celica Joined: May 2003 Posts: 582 palm springs, burbank CA	its your battery, you don't have any alternator problem or anything like. your car shouldn't have those problem until you went over 150k miles

Re: Car slow to start...battery dying? Jae #229677 Jul 23, 6:20am
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Anonymous Unregistered	it could be the spark plugs...not sure though...but at least get an optima as virgilson said

Re: Car slow to start...battery dying? BReakinDrifTs #229678 Jul 23, 6:43am
Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 873 PA drkramm seabass 2000 Toyota Celica GTS
drkramm seabass 2000 Toyota Celica GTS Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 873 PA	Originally Posted by BReakinDrifTs Make sure plugs and wiring around distrubutor and alternator is good? we don't have distrubutors hey thats a 20 minute phone call "if i have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" derek: do you know that non dairy cream is flamable Jennie: ...derek..what did you do

Re: Car slow to start...battery dying? drkramm #229679 Jul 23, 7:47am
Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,014 Likes: 1 Malton, ON CA Haulin_A_Doo Specialist
Haulin_A_Doo Specialist Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,014 Likes: 1 Malton, ON CA	Originally Posted by drkramm Originally Posted by BReakinDrifTs Make sure plugs and wiring around distrubutor and alternator is good? we don't have distrubutors Good eye! No plug wires or distributor.

Re: Car slow to start...battery dying? Haulin_A_Doo #229680 Jul 23, 9:09am
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 760 Wyoming csheriff Senior Member 2002 Toyota Celica
csheriff Senior Member 2002 Toyota Celica Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 760 Wyoming	while we're on the subject, what is the model of optima red top that will fit in our car?

Re: Car slow to start...battery dying? csheriff #229681 Jul 23, 10:01am
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Anonymous Unregistered	Yea optimas are great. I left my dome light on for a good week once when i was out of town still started right up.

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