# Car won't stay started

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-wont-stay-started/180418>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [November 3, 2021, 10:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-wont-stay-started/180418 "2021-11-03T10:28:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![It\_s-Me](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/it_s-me/32/12660_2.png) [@It\_s-Me](https://community.cartalk.com/u/It_s-Me)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 10:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-wont-stay-started/180418/2 "2021-11-03T10:58:26Z")

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> [@amisfitlife\_164142](#):
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> My boyfriend has a 1999 Ford ranger.

> [@Battery intermittently going dead](https://community.cartalk.com/t/battery-intermittently-going-dead/159650/1):
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> My husband has a 99 Ford Ranger.

Your boyfriend and husband both have 99 Rangers

Alternators don’t last forever, I’d say his alternator is shot again.

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