hello,

Over the last year or so the daily 1994 Corolla has started to play up every now and then.

Issue:

The car sometimes starts up and sometimes it doesn't, i would say it starts up 90% of the time first go.

Things i have noticed:

Once in a while the standard car deck would reset itself (lose all pre set stations and time) but i had not disconnected the battery.

It might start up first go, then when i come back to the car e.g. after going to the shops, it wont start up at all. At times it will totally not start up again sometimes if i wait 10-15 minutes it will fire up again.

Possible issue:

1.Battery i have a new one in since last year.

2.alternator? I heard that if you drive short distances, it might not charge up enough? but if that is the case regardless if it was a 5 minute or 45 minutes car trip 'this issue has happened before'

i really don't have too much knowledge with cars, so i wanted to get a few opinions before heading to a mechanic and maybe getting stuff changed that i didn't really need to.

thanks in advance.