2004 Hyundai Accent Problems starting while cold. 04

WILLDABEAST1991

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2004 HYUNDAI ACCENT
4 CYL
FWD
AUTOMATIC
150,000 MILES

This problem has been going on now about a month or so. The car wouldn't start would just make one click and then nothing. I could sometimes get it to start by trying a few times. Had battery, alternator, and starter tested at O'reileys initially and the starter is the only thing that failed. Replaced the starter and it seemed all was good. Now that weather is getting colder in CO it didn't want to start at all yesterday morning. So I took the battery out of a different car and put it in this one (both batteries were 600 CCA and group 121.) After putting a different battery in it started up just fine. Did some errands and ran into the same exact problem a few hours later. Could this be the starter again? Any help would be awesome!

Sunday, November 8th, 2015 AT 6:51 AM

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WRENCHTECH

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There is a sequence of tests that should be automatic in this situation.

First, charge and test the battery.
Once you have a known good battery, test the charging system in the car.

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Sunday, November 8th, 2015 AT 7:07 AM

WILLDABEAST1991

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It was tested while it had the battery from the other car in it yesterday and the starter tested good. The battery tested good. And the alternator tested bad first then he really tested it twice and it tested good.

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Sunday, November 8th, 2015 AT 8:01 AM

WRENCHTECH

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Reality states that's not possible for all those things to be good so someone needs to go back and look again. Starters can be intermittent, alternators can be intermittent. Poor connections can be intermittent.

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Sunday, November 8th, 2015 AT 8:06 AM