Daniel 10

Hey I have a 2004 rx8 my car won't start it's the second time it has happen the first time it happen I was listen to music so I turn on the car to make sure the battery wasn't dead it crank up good turn it off go back the next day and it wouldn't turn on I took it to the mechanic he put new spark plugs and keep trying to turn it on finally it did everything was good them drove it for awhile and about 3 weeks ago I did the same thing and it wouldn't crank up I like up how to deflooded cause that's what happen the first time and I tu and try clean the sparks plugs hook it up to jumper cables still wound turn on mechanic says a need a new engine help

RIWWP

iTrader: (2)

Your post is hard to read without any puncuation. It's just a big run on sentance. The more incomprehensible you make your posts, the less likely anyone is going to be to help you, just because they don't want to deal with trying to read it. Taking the time to write a post with proper punctuation and grammar tells us that you care about the answers you might get. If you don't care much, then we tend not to care either.


That being said, it sounds like you flooded it. Flooding ALWAYS happens because one or more parts on your car failed. It could be:
- plugs (needs changing every 30k)
- wires (needs changing every 30k)
- coils (needs changing every 30k)
- battery (weak/low charge)
- starter (spins too slow)
- engine (failing compression or coolant leaking into housing)
- battery connections (hurting the electrical current to ignition and/or starter)
- engine block grounding points (hurting the electrical current to ignition and/or starter)

So if you flooded it, one of those items is failing, and until you fix it, it's probably going to keep re-flooding the engine. Pull starting the car will get it started, but you need to fix what's wrong.

Sed Bogan

This article is fantastic. Thank you RIWWP for posting this reply. I am experiencing the same issue as Daniel 10. I was about to get a tune up this morning, but will share this information with my mechanic. I have been told by my mechanic to ONLY use Shell or Chevron 93 octane gas.

Kinbote

Is this guy serious? If so, he's probably flooding it because he's turning it off cold as he described.

BigCajun

iTrader: (1)

Turning the engine off cold is not a problem with a healthy ignition.
I do it without any issues.

monchie

I sometimes turn it off cold and it never flooded, unless you don't have a healthy ignition system.