{"id":32282,"date":"2016-08-03T11:15:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T16:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=32282"},"modified":"2016-08-03T11:15:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T16:15:31","slug":"1995-ford-contour-gl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/08\/1995-ford-contour-gl","title":{"rendered":"1995 Ford Contour GL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35675\" src=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1995-ford-contour.jpg\" alt=\"1995 Ford Contour\" width=\"597\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1995-ford-contour.jpg 597w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1995-ford-contour-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/>Driving along the road the other day car just completely stops, power went out. I have <a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/battery.html\">battery<\/a> but my car won&#8217;t start what may be wrong?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>RESPONSE<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/nostart.html\">No Start Diagnostics<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the engine does not crank &#8211; most likely reason would be the battery is weak from the <a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/alternator.html\">alternator<\/a> not charging it. The engine was running off the battery by itself because the alternator was not charging it. Now the battery is probably to weak to start the engine or keep it running. Check to make sure the alternator belt did not come off.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving along the road the other day car just completely stops, power went out. I have battery but my car won&#8217;t start what may be wrong? RESPONSE No Start Diagnostics If the engine does not crank &#8211; most likely reason would be the battery is weak from the alternator not charging it. The engine was&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/08\/1995-ford-contour-gl\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1995 Ford Contour GL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[10259],"class_list":["post-32282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-ford","tag-contour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}