# Haven't Started My Car for 3 Weeks **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** pontiac, grandprix\ **Created:** [September 26, 2013, 7:06am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/havent-started-my-car-for-3-weeks/81515 "2013-09-26T07:06:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![akuhn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/akuhn/32/5125_2.png) [@akuhn](https://community.cartalk.com/u/akuhn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 7:06am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/havent-started-my-car-for-3-weeks/81515/1 "2013-09-26T07:06:50Z")
I just got a new car three weeks ago and I’m trying to sell my 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix GT myself. Since buying this new car, I haven’t driven the Pontiac for 3 weeks. I started it tonight and it started just fine but when I started driving, I heard a clunking noise coming from the front end. I checked the wheels and didn’t see anything (though I didn’t check too thoroughly). It’s definitely the front end. The car has about 158,000 miles on it and before I stopped driving it, it had no issues and did not have this clunking sound. I tried leaving the car running for 5 minutes at a time and then turning it off and then on again thinking it might be that I’ve just left it sit there but that didn’t work. Help! ---
**Author:** ![akuhn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/akuhn/32/5125_2.png) [@akuhn](https://community.cartalk.com/u/akuhn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 7:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/havent-started-my-car-for-3-weeks/81515/2 "2013-09-26T07:18:55Z")
Sidenote, I had my wheel bearings replaced about 6 months ago. ---
**Author:** ![UncleTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9a140/32.png) [@UncleTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/UncleTurbo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 7:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/havent-started-my-car-for-3-weeks/81515/3 "2013-09-26T07:28:51Z")
If the car is still registered, take it for a 30 mile drive and make sure you have to use the brakes along the way. I suspect you have rust on the rotors and a few stops should clear off the rust and things should be normal. Otherwise the drive will warm up the drive train and perhaps get a joint that has “frozen” to loosen up. ---
**Author:** ![hardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@hardt](https://community.cartalk.com/u/hardt)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 7:45am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/havent-started-my-car-for-3-weeks/81515/4 "2013-09-26T07:45:09Z")
I think I had a problem like that many years ago and it was just a temporary flat spot on one of the tires. Don’t know if the better quality tires of today are prone to developing a flat spot from sitting too long. ---
**Author:** ![akuhn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/akuhn/32/5125_2.png) [@akuhn](https://community.cartalk.com/u/akuhn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/havent-started-my-car-for-3-weeks/81515/5 "2013-09-26T17:02:20Z")
I live in Colorado and it sat through the rain storm we had recently. ---
**Author:** ![Caddyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/caddyman/32/23_2.png) [@Caddyman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caddyman)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/havent-started-my-car-for-3-weeks/81515/6 "2013-09-26T17:41:32Z")
Have the CV joints checked…Was the car flooded? ---
**Author:** ![akuhn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/akuhn/32/5125_2.png) [@akuhn](https://community.cartalk.com/u/akuhn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/havent-started-my-car-for-3-weeks/81515/7 "2013-09-26T18:10:23Z")
The car was not flooded. I have not checked the CV joints since the rain so I will be driving it and checking those today. ---
**Author:** ![akuhn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/akuhn/32/5125_2.png) [@akuhn](https://community.cartalk.com/u/akuhn)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/havent-started-my-car-for-3-weeks/81515/8 "2013-09-28T01:34:32Z")
Good news! I drove it for a while and it seems to be driving fine now. Did a lot of hard braking hoping to wear off rust and that seemed to do the trick! Thanks for all the ideas!