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I'm going to keep this short and simple. I hate over-ranting but this is something that has to be done.

The heater in my car hasn't been working. I live in North Dakota. That means that I get to drive around in this weather without any heating. Fantastic. Anyway, we're waiting on this part to arrive (will take about a week or so) so we can get it fixed.

In the meantime, I'm driving my dad's old '94 pickup. Anyway, I go out to warm that baby up before work and, in what has to be the most predictable scenario of all-time, it doesn't start.

Kyle if you didn't have bad luck, you'd have no luck at all.

My jeep would not start today until I turned the radio and heater off. (WTF?)

No noise would come out when I turned the key, but the radio, lights etc. all worked.

Anyone in the know, does this sound like battery problems, or something worse?

I think it's just a battery problem. No one else is home, though, so I can't jump it.

Instead of searching for a ride to work, I'm just aimlessly searching Gateway.

I should probably call them and tell 'em I'm gonna be late...

JCShutout wrote:My jeep would not start today until I turned the radio and heater off. (WTF?)

No noise would come out when I turned the key, but the radio, lights etc. all worked.

Anyone in the know, does this sound like battery problems, or something worse?

If your lights and radio came on w/o a problem is probably not the battery. Could be a starter but normally you can tell its going out before it just dies.

Oops, sorry JC. I thought you were asking me if I thought my vehicle's problem was the battery.

Kyle wrote:Oops, sorry JC. I thought you were asking me if I thought my vehicle's problem was the battery.

If its a stick and you live on a small hill you can always "pop" start it.

Kyle wrote:Oops, sorry JC. I thought you were asking me if I thought my vehicle's problem was the battery.

lol, that's okay. I probably should not have hijacked your thread!

cardinalkarp wrote:If your lights and radio came on w/o a problem is probably not the battery. Could be a starter but normally you can tell its going out before it just dies.

Hmm. I guess I'll just have to get it looked at. Damn, and I had my finances planned out through July.

JCShutout wrote:

Kyle wrote:Oops, sorry JC. I thought you were asking me if I thought my vehicle's problem was the battery.

lol, that's okay. I probably should not have hijacked your thread!

cardinalkarp wrote:If your lights and radio came on w/o a problem is probably not the battery. Could be a starter but normally you can tell its going out before it just dies.

Hmm. I guess I'll just have to get it looked at. Damn, and I had my finances planned out through July.

Definitely ask someone that's more mechanicly inclined then I am though, I don't know a whole lot about working on cars.

That definitely sounds like a starter problem, JC. Start there.