t4r struggling to start

[skkiii_whhaattt]

:awais: ok so its somewhat been like this for a while. i got a new optima battery almost about a year ago. its been really well after about the first couple months i had it. now i know optima batteries run small. there was one time when i drove it that i noticed a noise under the hood. after my drive it was the optima battery that fell over and the ground wire snapped off from the negative port wire. i did fix the problem so the battery would stay in place. it starts out fine when i first start the car but if i go to run a quick errand or drop by a friends house for a couple mins and i try to start the car it struggles... sometimes it sounds like it started fine but it turns off again... so what i would do is either wait a couple seconds to start it or rev it up while it starts... and that usually works. but i dont wanna have to go through all that trouble just to start my car... it seems like i have to wait a while for everything to charge up for it to have a smooth start again. could it possibly be the battery or something else? maybe the starter or the alternator? or maybe its the ground that snapped off... please help me out!!

 

[Lexusbstrdchild]

did you fix the ground wire? if you dont have a good ground, that would be a big problem. if its fine, check the battery voltage. maybe the alt. is not properly charging the battery. it could also be the starter, its hard to tell.

 

[trd_style]

did you sand off the pieces where you are grounding it? you suppose to sand the paint off completely.

 

[skkiii_whhaattt]

did you sand off the pieces where you are grounding it? you suppose to sand the paint off completely.

i have no idea what your talking about.... i havent grounded anything. the ground that was already connected to the negative port of the battery snapped off... could it be that i need to re-wire that ground? would i need a new grounding kit?