Friday evening I arrived home after filling up my pontiac sunfire's gas tank and it's tires. I was in the mood to get a good jump on things for the weekend so I ran my lunch box inside and said hello to my beautiful wife and then grabbed her car keys to head out and do the same maintenance for her car.
I swung open the car door, and sat down on the seat, and then I put the key and turned the ignition just to hear....no I heard something alright...it just wasn't the car starting. All I could hear was the engine turning over and over and over again. I wanted the car to start but it wouldn't kick over!
So after running the battery completely down and then hooking my jumper cables up to my Pontiac and recharging the battery and then running it all the way down again. We said a prayer and I called it a night.
The following morning after doing some research, I went out to check on the ignition and the different components of it. After buying a small spark tester from Auto Zone for $6.57 I found out that the engine was indeed giving a spark. So after a while I came to realize that it probably had to do with the fuel injector and that's when we called up Bishop Whitney and called up Progressive and got a tow truck. Progressive gave me a quote of 15 miles for free and Google Maps said that Bishop Whitney's was 15.6 miles away! So we were close but the truck driver ended up giving us the extra .6 miles for free! What a Saint!
Well that was our big event for the weekend and we will find out the damages come tuesday!
I swung open the car door, and sat down on the seat, and then I put the key and turned the ignition just to hear....no I heard something alright...it just wasn't the car starting. All I could hear was the engine turning over and over and over again. I wanted the car to start but it wouldn't kick over!
So after running the battery completely down and then hooking my jumper cables up to my Pontiac and recharging the battery and then running it all the way down again. We said a prayer and I called it a night.
The following morning after doing some research, I went out to check on the ignition and the different components of it. After buying a small spark tester from Auto Zone for $6.57 I found out that the engine was indeed giving a spark. So after a while I came to realize that it probably had to do with the fuel injector and that's when we called up Bishop Whitney and called up Progressive and got a tow truck. Progressive gave me a quote of 15 miles for free and Google Maps said that Bishop Whitney's was 15.6 miles away! So we were close but the truck driver ended up giving us the extra .6 miles for free! What a Saint!
Well that was our big event for the weekend and we will find out the damages come tuesday!
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