Can't Start A Vehicle?

[kendakari]

playing with vehicles for the first time. This is like the 8th car I've failed too start. According to the Vehicle screen there hasn't been nanything wrong with the cars. shows that the battery is fine and tank capacity is 30/36. says the key is in the ignition. but I can't get the car to start. Am I missing something? or is the first number in gas capacity not the amount contained?

[teses]

are you able to actually see the key in your inv or the ignition? when hovering over the ignition its giving me the "key in ign" message even when there isnt one. a key icon should appear over your head when you get close to a care you have a key for. key needs to be in your primary inv and not a pack as well.

[kendakari]

This was the problem! Thank you. I thought it was weird that every car's keys were already in the ignition. finally found a key to a vehicle and it worked.

[Eep²]

I suddenly can't start my truck. Vehicle status shows everything (battery, fuel, etc) OK. The car just makes a single knock sound and shakes/vibrates a bit when I try to start it. It's raining and I installed the Hydrocraft mod but the truck started up fine after loading (and has started fine in the rain before) so I don't get it. Any ideas?

It seems I lost the key to the truck but I never dragged it out of my keychain so I don't get how it suddenly disappeared from my inventory. WTF? Weird thing is the ignition switch shows the key in it but I no longer have the key icon over my head when outside and next to a vehicle door. I guess Hydrocraft bugged my game? Quit/reload didn't help either...

OK, this is even weirder now. If I leave the truck with the ignition clicked on, the key disappears from my inventory (key ring) when I get out. If I leave the truck with the ignition clicked off, the key doesn't immediately show up in my key ring but the key icon shows above my character's head. However, once I get into the driver seat the car still won't start. WTF? Is Hydrocraft this bugged or something? Sheesh.

I disabled the Hydrocraft and Soul Filcher's Building Time mods to see if that was the problem but the truck still won't start so then I loaded a manually backed up saved game of the same sandbox game but before I went out on another supply run and after a while the truck stopped working again so this isn't a mod issue. Again, the truck's condition is fine (overall 83%) so WTF is going on with this truck?? It's the Fossoil Dash Bulldriver and has worked fine for the ~10 in-game days I've been using it. So frustrating!

Update and solution (I swear I already wrote this but the post wasn't saved or something): turns out the problem was the battery charge at 8% prevented the truck from starting when the battery should have been getting charged as I drove it (95% condition). How could a battery in 95% condition only have 8% charge? Seems a conflict between battery condition and charge %. Anyway, after I charged the battery up to 15% the truck started up. Sheesh!