I have the following to translate.

```

    車は、
    古くて、
    パワーウインドーの窓が時々閉まらくなったり、
    ヘッドライトが消えなくなったりして
    困るので、
    主人に早めに直してもらわなくてはなりません。
    
```

So far I have the following.

```

    The car
    is old and
    it does things like the power windows sometimes become ...
    and the headlights become not turning off and
    it is a problem so
    I have to have my husband fix it relatively early. 
    
```

I am confused by the `閉まらくなった`. I would understand if it were `閉まらなくなった`
(become not closing). I am not sure if this was just a typo by my professor or
whether it is some other structure.
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Translation of 閉まらくなった
"stopped closing properly"

Please disregard if we are done with this question.
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Typo aside, I still found the sentence to be rather long and unwieldy.

I wonder if this is just my bias as a native English speaker or was the
original sentence eloquent and efficient in Japanese?

I know that many on this site dislike posing questions in an answer so perhaps
I will remove this later to placate the ire of other users here, but I am
interested in understanding the seeming discrepancy between my understanding
of this sentence and how it might be working.

But maybe there was a period after ヘッドライトが消えなくなったりして and the OP did not post
it?

Anyways, here is my loose translation attempt.

I believe i smudged the meaning a little in my attempt to make it sound like
natural English.

> My car is so old that I have this problem where sometimes the power windows
> don't close properly and the headlights don't turn off so I have to ask my
> husband to fix it for me soon.

There is so much information in one sentence that I found it to be more
natural when divided in two:

> My car is so old that I have this problem where sometimes the power windows
> don't close properly and the headlights don't turn off. So I have to ask my
> husband to fix it for me soon.
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