Q: Clicking sound when turning over.
My husband is trying to figure out what is going on with our truck. He's already replaced the battery, starter,fuel pump and put gas in it. When we turn the key over it makes a clicking/knocking type of noise and won't start up. What could be the problem??
My car has 156000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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