Also, the cold just does a lot of wierd things to rotary engines (like foaming oil)

I didn't drive my car for two days, went out and fired it up in the cold (minus 10) late last night and it was sputtering a bit at first. It wouldn't rev up at first, like what happens when your coils are going south, then it went away. BTW - I have new coils so I know it isn't that.

Probably had some frozen condensation in the engine somewhere, or the engine its self was frozen.

What ever, after about 30 seconds engine was back to normal.

You'll drive your self crazy trying to figure out every nuance of these engines.....ecspecially if no warning lights are on.

 

Similar thing happened to me tonight...

Started the car from cold in -15 or so...
It started, revved fine... I let it warm up for about a minute (Really rushed... I know.. I know!)

I put it in gear... hit a patch of ice, (snowstorm last night... ice and snow all over the place) and the revs went up to around 4k

My CEL has been on for a few days... The dealer said its the cat... and is replacing it later this week... However, it started flashing.. and it started to sputter... although only for a couple seconds, then it went back to my normal CEL light.. and it was fine the rest of the night!

(04 6 spd, all updates, 25k)

 

Make sure you redline the car in the winter months too... MS CAI so far in Toronto winter having no troubles. (knock on wood)

 

I don't think your supposed to hold it for more than 10 secs as I understand this will burn out the starter

 

It better or I'm holding you personally responsible!!

It sure as hell better kick in by then, or gonna have some problems.
I just left my car for 5 days at the airport, started right up even tho my battery was barely turning it. Hoping for a new battery for xmas

 

Yeah, I have left my car at the airport a couple of times and it always fires right up when I return.

 

That's when you really want her to start since all you wanna do is get home. I was worried about my battery and another day of -10 would have finished the battery off I'm sure lol.

Where were you in BC Mike? I was in Kelowna.

 

Anywhere from the Airport - Downtown Vancouver - Abbotsford.

 

For some reason whenever I start my car up in this cold -20 weather it still does the high idle thing for about 10 seconds with a blinking coolant light, then comes back down to normal and coolant light off.

Is this normal or no?

 

I don't think it is normal. A guess might be, is your car an american car, or a canadian car? I wonder if your coolant isn't the right kind for Calgary and is actually freezing at night?!?

 

Came here to say this. Thanks for the morning laugh

 

Yeah, it's right up there with VIN number and ATM machine!