[Shotimes] a slight problem...

[Tom Teixeira]

At 12:53 AM -0400 10/6/03, NoNo :-D wrote:
>My car does a new trick. Sometimes when i go to start it up it 
>looses all power, then to get it running again i just have to pop 
>the hood and play with the negative wire on the battery and it works 
>again. but today when i went to go do it and closed my hood it 
>wouldnt close right. it'll go down, but it wont lock down. it'll 
>stay at the point from where you pop it from inside the car, ya know 
>where its locked so it doesnt fly up when you're doing 90 mphs on 
>the highway. it just wont lock closed. any ideas on how to fix it? 
>Thanks :) :)

Lots of people have told you about the battery connectors. I recently 
had trouble with my hood latch, but it was stuck closed (wouldn't pop 
up when I pulled the hood release). I had my wife pull the hood 
release and I got the hood open. Then I  removed the hood latch, 
cleaned it out with strong detergent (simple green), oiled it a bit 
and put it back. You can probably clean it well enough without 
removing it. See if that gets the hood latch to work more easily.

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