Q: When I try to trun it over it just clicks with low lights.

asked by on January 26, 2017

While driving the car died, I had a new battery and starter put on and still the same clicking. The fuel pump kicks on. When turning the key over the light dim to almost nothing. I have jumped the starter and it turns over, the battery has been placed in a different car and it started. The click is a single click repeated with no others sounds.

My car has 200000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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