Q: Truck starting
I have just changed my alternator an battery and starter are good,i dont drive it on weekends but when i go to start it up on monday to go to work it wont start up tahoe is completly dead or sometimes lights and everything work but still wont start up i have to give it a boost and it quickly turns on and will contunie to run the whole week untill i dont drive it on the weekends and i have the same problem allover again,i make sure i dont leave nothing on thinking that might be the problem,only thing i can think of is the sparkplugs might be bad,do you think this could be my problem??
My car has 232222 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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