Car pulls on highway curves at a certain point of steering

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I had my friends saturn not start like every Couple of months like yours installed a feed back light that shows me the purple trigger wire was getting power when it didnt start. Those starters arent that hard to change just replaced my brothers and took me about 10 mins lol.
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 AT 11:36 AM
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Also make sure the battery cable to the starter is tight also as well as the battery cables are clean and tight. Make sure you unhook the battery before checking connections. Also have the battery tested.
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 AT 11:39 AM
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Battery is brand new as of a year and a half or 2 years ago. I just put my car half way in the garage and going to check the starter connection and battery terminals and be sure that everything is tight. Hoping this is a simple issue
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 AT 3:20 PM
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Wow your battery is 1.5-2yrs old doesnt mean it cant be bad lol.I have gotten brand new batterys that were bad have seen batterys a month old six months a yr old 2yrs old etc bad. Have the battery tested!Dont ever over look a battery no matter how old it is.
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 AT 4:08 PM
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Quick update. The wires leading to the starter were solid as a rock. I took a few accessory light wires off of the battery terminals, just mainly leds that look pretty but are not needed, and I took a dremel tool and shined up the contacts of the battery and the main cables. I put everything back together and I had no power at all. Nothing. Everything was tight and I figured with there being less gap in between the cable and the battery it should be better. So I started wiggling some of the old wires around that I had put in and I got power. Started and stopped the car about 5 times and never had an issue. So I just tucked the bundle of wires away for now and hoping that maybe the issue was just a wire shorting out.
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 AT 4:09 PM
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Well that battery info kinda blows. Ill have it tested next time im close to the shop. I am just hoping that tomorrow morning on the cold start that it does not give me trouble.
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 AT 6:52 PM
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Hopefully you fixed the problem sorry about the cold hard truth about batteries.
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 AT 7:10 PM
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The cold hard truth about batteries is not as bad as the cold hard fricken minnesota weather right now. But the weekend is supposed to get up to 20. HEAT WAVE!
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 AT 7:15 PM
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That sucks.
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 AT 8:30 PM
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So about a week of this starting issue happening pretty much every single morning and sometimes during the day, I went to start my car this morning and it started right up without a problem. I think it's fixed. Simple wire shorting from one of the accessory cables is what i'm thinking.
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Thursday, December 12th, 2013 AT 5:22 AM
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Glad to hear it keep me posted if it acts up again also dont forget to have the battery tested.
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Thursday, December 12th, 2013 AT 9:21 AM
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Well, shortly after I thought I fixed the issue, 2 days ago I had 4 instances where I went to start the car and had no power at all. Was solved by wiggling the wires again. I was not going to do that every day just to start my car so I took another look after I had removed 70% of the extra wires in the way from the accessories. Caradiodoc was spot on, the positive terminal that goes to the fuse box was a little loose, even though I thought I had checked that before. So far so good. Have not had the battery tested yet
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 AT 5:26 AM
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I TOLD you I'm not as dumb as I look. Hope it's fixed for good this time.
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 AT 9:36 AM
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Indeed, don't gloat too much though. I'm glad it was a simple issue regardless of the fact I thought I had checked that wire initially before jacking the car up and checking the starter wires.
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 AT 11:48 AM
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Glad to hear you found the problem thats why we test things before replacing them.
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 AT 12:42 PM
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Louie, I opened another question about an oil leak. Please reply soon. Thanks!
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Thursday, February 20th, 2014 AT 7:58 AM

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