Q: My dashboard lights flickered and my radio and heat flickered as well then my car shut off and won't start up again. What is wrong
I was driving to work this morning and when I stopped and was sitting in the heat, and as I was sitting the dashboard lights started flickering on and off, and when they didn't my heat would stop blowing along with my radio, like everything stopped. Then the car shut off and won't start back up again. It starts to turn over like once then it just ticks like the battery is dead. Please help
My car has 140000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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