Q: What will cause your vehicle not to start even though it has power?
We have replaced the battery, alternator, starter, and module. It still won't start. We checked the fuses and they are good. When we would drive it the battery would go down but then go back up. It would be fine the next day until it was driven for 20 minutes.
My car has 151000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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