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Sad sad days when the car won’t fire up..

Old 12-14-2018, 05:38 AM
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My 09 tC wont start nor does it turn over. It will make like a whining noise an quickly the battery drains. I’ve replaced starter, battery is fine. What happened was the car went into limp mode randomly I put new spark plugs in it went away for about 2 weeks then did it again on the way home.
The next day I went to take to a friend of mine that works at Toyota went through a no more than 6” deep puddle and vehicle died like not straight shut down but sputtered a bit then died. An went to start again and got a loud click click noise which I thought battery isn’t strong enough.
Well go to jump start it n makes the same whining noise but louder. If anyone has any ideas what is my issue I’d more than appreciate it, driving the ole lady’s Kia isn’t right! Haha

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Old 12-16-2018, 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Tkdnlv
My 09 tC wont start nor does it turn over. It will make like a whining noise an quickly the battery drains. I’ve replaced starter, battery is fine. What happened was the car went into limp mode randomly I put new spark plugs in it went away for about 2 weeks then did it again on the way home.
The next day I went to take to a friend of mine that works at Toyota went through a no more than 6” deep puddle and vehicle died like not straight shut down but sputtered a bit then died. An went to start again and got a loud click click noise which I thought battery isn’t strong enough.
Well go to jump start it n makes the same whining noise but louder. If anyone has any ideas what is my issue I’d more than appreciate it, driving the ole lady’s Kia isn’t right! Haha

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Some say these motors are bullet proof for the most part.

Jus a visual on what I’m working with here

I’d greatly more than appreciate any feed back on my issue here. Thanks in advance
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Old 12-28-2018, 04:03 AM
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Have you tested your alternator?

If you have a cold air intake, you might have sucked water into your engine. Attempting to crank it might bend the piston rods.

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