Car won't start... searched for specific problem and didn't find it
02-18-2013, 06:54 PM
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Car won't start... searched for specific problem and didn't find it
Friday night I shut the car down after I had backed in and out of the driveway. It wasn't completely cold, but it had been sitting for awhile. It was idling at point that I know that I have shut it off before and not had any ill effects. The gas light was on as well and its February here in Illinois.
Well, this morning (Monday) I went to start it and it fired up, ran for about 1 or 2 seconds and then died. Try as I might it would not fire back up. I didn't initially think that I had flooded the engine and just tried the start it back up while pumping the accelerator pedal. It wasn't until I was close to draining the battery that I thought to open up the manual and it was there that I read about the deflooding procedure.
I tried both this morning and tonight to deflood the car using the method in the manual but with no success. I jumped the car in order to get a good crank out of the starter and even got frustrated and let it crank with the pedal down for 30 seconds once or twice. Still nothing. I know that I probably shouldn't have done this, but in my frustration I thought that maybe prolonged cranking would get all of the potentially unburned fuel out of the engine (it is also what I did to get my 88 turbo2 to turn over when it got flooded).
I am now starting to wonder if it is flooded or not because of the fact that there is no smell of fuel and the engine cranks good and strong. I have searched for answers to this, but nobody has listed this specific type of problem. Is the next step to check the fuel pump fuse? I have read that there is not a fuel filter that is easily changeable so I am wondering if there is something that is prohibiting the engine from getting fuel.
The car is a 2005 Manual with 83000 miles on the clock and it is bone stock. All regular service performed at the dealer and all service bulletin work performed accordingly as well. I love this car and have taken very very good care of it and I am looking for any information that might help. Thank you.
Well, this morning (Monday) I went to start it and it fired up, ran for about 1 or 2 seconds and then died. Try as I might it would not fire back up. I didn't initially think that I had flooded the engine and just tried the start it back up while pumping the accelerator pedal. It wasn't until I was close to draining the battery that I thought to open up the manual and it was there that I read about the deflooding procedure.
I tried both this morning and tonight to deflood the car using the method in the manual but with no success. I jumped the car in order to get a good crank out of the starter and even got frustrated and let it crank with the pedal down for 30 seconds once or twice. Still nothing. I know that I probably shouldn't have done this, but in my frustration I thought that maybe prolonged cranking would get all of the potentially unburned fuel out of the engine (it is also what I did to get my 88 turbo2 to turn over when it got flooded).
I am now starting to wonder if it is flooded or not because of the fact that there is no smell of fuel and the engine cranks good and strong. I have searched for answers to this, but nobody has listed this specific type of problem. Is the next step to check the fuel pump fuse? I have read that there is not a fuel filter that is easily changeable so I am wondering if there is something that is prohibiting the engine from getting fuel.
The car is a 2005 Manual with 83000 miles on the clock and it is bone stock. All regular service performed at the dealer and all service bulletin work performed accordingly as well. I love this car and have taken very very good care of it and I am looking for any information that might help. Thank you.
02-18-2013, 07:44 PM
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"The gas light was on as well and its February here in Illinois."
"I am wondering if there is something that is prohibiting the engine from getting fuel."
Put Gas In Car. Try Again. It might just be that simple.
- Side Note: Don't ever let the gas light come on. Its bad for the car.
"I am wondering if there is something that is prohibiting the engine from getting fuel."
Put Gas In Car. Try Again. It might just be that simple.
- Side Note: Don't ever let the gas light come on. Its bad for the car.
Last edited by Wolfe; 02-19-2013 at 11:08 AM.
02-19-2013, 10:59 AM
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it is possible its out of gas, also possible its flooded. if you crank it, and then walk around behind the car and smell gas, its flooded, if you don't smell gas something else is going on
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