HELP!!!! mini wont start - battery good, was literally just running at lunch!!

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Dec 9, 2015 | 12:58 PM
  #1  
hey, this just happened to me, i just owned the car for a week.

i drove it at lunch, parked it.

went down for a smoke and was going to get a coffee and i go to start it and it makes one click, like it wants to start and then nothing.

i also noticed that the driver side window is not doing the roll down/roll up when the door opens, but the passenger side does.

it gave me an exclamation mark on the warning light that the book says is driver door open while ignition on? pg 39 on owners manual


i need to move the car, please help me out
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Dec 9, 2015 | 05:52 PM
  #2  
Year and model will help with responses. How do you know the battery is good? A marginal battery on these cars cause all kinds of problems, including what you are describing..
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Dec 10, 2015 | 09:35 AM
  #3  
ok so i went to boost the car as people suggested dead battery and i found out the negative terminal was not tightened and it had almost completely come off.... i called and b!tched the dealer out for their shoddy workmanship and got a credit for the labour amount to replace battery.
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Dec 10, 2015 | 09:38 AM
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Now that it's running again, is it still having those other issues? Be sure to test the battery. If it's going bad you could have this issue again.
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Dec 10, 2015 | 12:39 PM
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Quote: ok so i went to boost the car as people suggested dead battery and i found out the negative terminal was not tightened and it had almost completely come off.... i called and b!tched the dealer out for their shoddy workmanship and got a credit for the labour amount to replace battery.
That's crazy, it has a little nut that presses up, if the put the terminal on really quick it will hand on the post, you have to push it down on the terminal all the way loose then tighten it up.
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