I think my battery is dying...
Your's is probably the battery but just last week mine did the same thing. Go out in the morning and spin over just fine and start up. Drive it up the road to get gas or to the store and come out it would barely turn over. Jump it off and do fine. Changed to a real hot battery and did the same thing, turns out the starter would spin over just fine when cold but after it got hot it would drag and drag the battery down with it. Replaced the starter and been doing just fine ever since.
Well, the day after I posted this I went and had my battery tested. It was dying, so I bought a new one.
I have only driven it a couple of times since, and no trips long enough for anything to get too hot. Just a couple miles here and there. I should have mentioned in the original post that the issues previously mentioned only seemed to take place after the car had been driven for a lengthy (30 miles or so) time and things were able to get hot, so to speak.
Anyways, fast forward to yesterday evening. Went for a short cruise and while passing my parents house en route to my house, my mom flagged me into her driveway. I sat there and shot the **** with her and my dad for a little bit, and didn't shut the car off. The conversation just kept going, unexpectedly. While sitting there my dad asked if replacing the battery helped with the previous issue, and I commented that it seemed to as far as I knew. Then the car died, out of nowhere. We chuckled about it and I figured I'd fire it up and head home. Turned the key, and while it turned over, it didn't seem to turn over as fast as normal and drug the battery down fairly quick. If my car would just fire while it's turning over, it might start, but it seems to take forever for it to fire when everything is hot and the battery gets drug down too far.
So now I'm thinking the starter is shot. I did a quick Google search last night and a guy had a similar problem with his car. Same exact symptoms, or so it seems. The last poster had that problem and it was cured by replacing the starter solenoid.
Here's the link to that thread. A lot of different opinions initially.
http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showthread.php?t=32363
Thoughts?
