Q: It bearly wanted to start up then I drove it for some minutes and it sounded nasty and turned off and didn't want to start
I was coming from a friend house and when I started my 2003 ram with about 149000 miles it nearly wanted to start up and you could hear a nasty noise and I drove for about 10 minutes the check Gages light turn on during the drive but it didn't seem like it was over heated it was just a little over to the heat side but as I made a turn to a street the wheel got hard and it turned off by itself and it wouldn't start at all I towed it to my house and the battery seemed to be working but it still won't start ,what could it be?
My car has 149000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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