Q: Battery light blinks and then go solid, power steering locks up, all my lights comes on, on the dash board.
Battery light blinks and then go solid, power steering locks up, all my lights comes on, on the dash board. And when I turn it off, it don't crank back up
My car has 126000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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