{"id":37379,"date":"2016-11-22T11:27:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T16:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=37379"},"modified":"2016-11-22T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T16:27:06","slug":"hard-time-starting-2006-ford-f150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/11\/hard-time-starting-2006-ford-f150","title":{"rendered":"Hard Time Starting 2006 Ford F150"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37499\" src=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2006-ford-f150.jpg\" alt=\"2006 Ford F150\" width=\"600\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2006-ford-f150.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2006-ford-f150-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>hard time starting, gauges are bouncing before they come up&#8230; what is causing this?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>RESPONSE<\/p>\n<p>May be a weak <a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/battery.html\">battery<\/a> or poor battery connections if it seems to be cranking slower than normal. If it cranks over fast, then it may be in need of a tune up(<a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/sparkplugs.html\">spark plugs<\/a>) or have a fuel related issue. May want to try some higher octane fuel from a different station the next time it needs a fill up. This would rule out having gotten some bad fuel in the past. Of course if the <a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/checkenginelight.html\">check engine light<\/a> is on, have the codes pulled and post them below. Just about any local auto parts store will do this for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hard time starting, gauges are bouncing before they come up&#8230; what is causing this? RESPONSE May be a weak battery or poor battery connections if it seems to be cranking slower than normal. If it cranks over fast, then it may be in need of a tune up(spark plugs) or have a fuel related issue.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/11\/hard-time-starting-2006-ford-f150\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hard Time Starting 2006 Ford F150<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14102,"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":[409,11129],"class_list":["post-37379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-ford","tag-f150","tag-hard-time-starting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37379","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\/14102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}