When you describe what your car is doing when you put the key in the start position the proper term is the car is cranking or turning over. When the car starts it is then running.

When some of you say the car cranks but doesn't turn over, that phrase does not register with me. If the motor IS cranking it IS turning over.

I say this because when some of you say the car doesn't turn over you mean the car does not crank yet the rest of you who say the car doesn't turn over you mean it doesn't start. VERY CONFUSING!

So from this point forward we all use similar terms to describe symptoms. Otherwise we have no clue what is going on and we cannot help you.

That is all, venting complete, carry on....

 

Sounds like you are getting all cranked up!!!

 

KDW, I agree.

 

Now maybe we can get some folks to turn over a new leaf?

I hope so...

 

Don't get all "cranked up" ;you will "start", "turning over" in your mind ,the "running" conditions,that "stall" a straight answer

 

5 relevant quotes !
Anybody want to top that ?

 

For starters I have to agree to the above, I tire at the poor transmission of facts when people clutch at vague expressions to describe their battery of problems. Sometimes I think they are given us the gears or trying to shaft us. Sometimes I think I'll shift my attention some place else.

 

well said!

 

After reading 180's spiel, I think I'll remain neutral...until 3:00. Then I'll shift over to the local tavern!

Only 2. But I work for a living.

 

Clearly your obsession with " lexicography " has left you just a tad bit crankey with the issue of rotational vs non-rotational reciprocating mass, maybe this will become an energizing key that will turn over and start an energized engine of conversation that will serve as an alternator to change the charge of the battery of questions that is sure to come that way you will become the regulator.

 

Or maybe just turned over...

 

If I knew "ranting" could have sparked this kind of humor I woulda vented ages ago...

 

My engine turnt over.

When it was getting cranked up.

Then it started.