Q: 1993 ford ranger 3.0 liter auto trans dies when use wipers or lights
Just put in s new battery, and it ran fine for a while. Yesterday in a rain storm i turned on the lights and then the wipers and the wipers moved very slowly. Stopped at a light snd it went completely dead. Battery dead and no power. A couple hours later it did the same thing. What could be wrong with it?
My car has 230000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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