Q: Charging system
So I had troubles last week turning my car on. And I changed the battery and it worked! 3 days after that I start noticing some starange things, for example: whenever I press the window bottom I hear strange sounds like something being charged. Since then whenever I try to turn on my car , it takes me a while to turn on, the engine cranks but it takes 10 seconds to get turned on. And today I tried turning it on and I couldn’t!! The engine cranks so like normal and you feel the car will start so soon but it doesn’t!
My car has 197014 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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