{"id":34989,"date":"2017-06-26T13:41:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T18:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=34989"},"modified":"2024-02-11T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T19:43:20","slug":"starter-will-not-turn-2002-ford-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2017\/06\/starter-will-not-turn-2002-ford-focus","title":{"rendered":"Starter will not turn 2002 Ford Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2004-ford-focus-ztw.jpg\" alt=\" Ford Focus\" width=\"600\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2004-ford-focus-ztw.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2004-ford-focus-ztw-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Starter will not turn<\/h3>\n<p>While driving, car shut itself down, slowing to a stop, as if out of gas, which was not the case. Have not been able to restart vehicle since. The starter will not turn the engine over, even though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/battery.html\">battery<\/a> is very strong (power flowing to all other systems) and there is a loud, obvious solenoid connection.<\/p>\n<p>No previous indication of problem at all with the starter. Not sure if it means anything, but vehicle did strike a deer two days earlier and airbag deployed. However, car drove without issue for the entire two days between the collision and the sudden shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Any ideas?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starter will not turn While driving, car shut itself down, slowing to a stop, as if out of gas, which was not the case. Have not been able to restart vehicle since. The starter will not turn the engine over, even though battery is very strong (power flowing to all other systems) and there is&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2017\/06\/starter-will-not-turn-2002-ford-focus\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starter will not turn 2002 Ford Focus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[410,11626],"class_list":["post-34989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-ford","tag-focus","tag-starter-will-not-turn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.0 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Starter will not turn 2002 Ford Focus - FreeAutoMechanic Advice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2017\/06\/starter-will-not-turn-2002-ford-focus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Starter will not turn 2002 Ford Focus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Starter will not turn While driving, car shut itself down, slowing to a stop, as if out of gas, which was not the case. 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