Q: My car wont start I was driving along the road I noticed the car just went dead all ignition lights came it went on a push but sam

asked by on March 05, 2017

My car wont start making a clicking noise went dead wen I was driving it but got it going on a push and the same thing happened again
My car has a manual transmission.

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