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Starts then, stops. After five or six times, starts.
This is starting to happen more frequently. If this problem can't be diagnosed.....New car...New brand!!!! Dealer can't diagnose problem if it doesn't happen a dealer. Had new fuel pump installed at 50500.
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Intermittent faults are very hard to diagnose. If it starts to happen more frequently you can ask an auto electrician to connect a professional grade scan tool computer and record the live data as it happens. That will provide the solution. My guess is the fuel pump pressure, but usually, they work or they don't.
If it's the original battery, it's 12 years old and way beyond it's useful life. If replaced once, the second battery is probably near the end of its life, five to six years
If you're near a Wal-Mart super store, get a new battery installed if the other is old, five to six years They have good prices and top rated batteries by CR. While you're there and if it's -25 (C or F since the scales are concurrent about that point) go to snack shop and warm up with a nice hot cocoa or hot cup of coffee. Sometimes its free in the customer lounge.
I think the reason it starts and turns off is most likely you fuel pump the abs light on could be the brake fluid level and or the brakes may need replaced.
the problem must be with the batteries. check the voltage levels of the battery using a voltmeter. if it goes lower that 10v and fast dying, then replace them. and also check the alternator charging the battery for any charging problem.
Most chevy engines have the same symptoms when the starter starts to give up. change fuel and air filters, and if sitll has the same problem replace the starter.
I don't know if your truck uses this method but several vehicles I have owned would turn on the electric cooling fan to combat the natural temperature rise that occurs in the engine once the coolant is not circulating anymore.
This prevents hard starting in a hot engine and if the thermostatic switch fails that controls the fan, the cooling (and turn-on) doesn't happen.
This may be your problem.
what is the actual problem? Also if the car has 50K+ miles it isn't new...
not enough information??? it could be anything
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