Car Wont start up..need help
11-08-2010, 05:17 PM
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Car Wont start up..need help
hey all ..i frist want to say that i myself dont know anything about cars what so ever... but i thought i woudl as you guys frist before i decide to bring my car to the dealer ship or my local shop because the warrenty just ran out on my car like 3 months ago
i have a 2004 mazda rx8..... it has like 44k miles on it
so far only things that need to be fixed in the past so far was
Had to replace battery and starter......
and had to change out oil coolent lines cause the rotted away.
.... now for my problem at hand
i drove my car last on saturday ... and the yellow light turned on for gas.. but i did not fill it cause i was almost home ...so i was going to go out to the gym today and woudl fill up on my way there( oh and it didi snow last night so i got really cold so i dont know if that coudl have anything to do with it like a frozen gas line or something)..... so tried to turn my car on and the lights turned on so i know the battery is not dead.... it sounds liek the car is trying to start up but it wont turn over..and a couple times i could feel the car jump/bounce like it was almost able to start but then i could not.......
i have a 2004 mazda rx8..... it has like 44k miles on it
so far only things that need to be fixed in the past so far was
Had to replace battery and starter......
and had to change out oil coolent lines cause the rotted away.
.... now for my problem at hand
i drove my car last on saturday ... and the yellow light turned on for gas.. but i did not fill it cause i was almost home ...so i was going to go out to the gym today and woudl fill up on my way there( oh and it didi snow last night so i got really cold so i dont know if that coudl have anything to do with it like a frozen gas line or something)..... so tried to turn my car on and the lights turned on so i know the battery is not dead.... it sounds liek the car is trying to start up but it wont turn over..and a couple times i could feel the car jump/bounce like it was almost able to start but then i could not.......
11-08-2010, 08:34 PM
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11-08-2010, 11:07 PM
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Probably not flooded. It's probably out of gas. If you ere on E and it got below freezing you stand a chance of moisture in your gas freezing. Go get a few gallons of gas in a can and dump it in.
11-09-2010, 12:02 AM
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my guess is that its out of gas. Mine did the exact same thing the other day. I thought I had a few more miles, so I just parked it in the garage. Next day I go to start it, and got the exact same problem. Went down to the gas station with a 3 gallon tank, took it home and put it in and what do you know. It started right up! lol
11-09-2010, 12:22 AM
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lol yah i did check the gas... that what i thought the prob was at frist also ...so i had a 2 gallon gas can hang around and pored it into my car and nothing changed...and the yellow light that say that im low ..went away after i put the two gallons in
11-09-2010, 06:04 PM
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hey i just had my car checked out by my local guy and he told me that the compression is only at 60psi.... and said the engine is poped... now would that be covered under the 8 year engine warranty ?
and if it is woudl that mean mazda woudl pay to get my car towed to the dealer ship?
and if it is woudl that mean mazda woudl pay to get my car towed to the dealer ship?
11-09-2010, 08:39 PM
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hey i just had my car checked out by my local guy and he told me that the compression is only at 60psi.... and said the engine is poped... now would that be covered under the 8 year engine warranty ?
and if it is woudl that mean mazda woudl pay to get my car towed to the dealer ship?
and if it is woudl that mean mazda woudl pay to get my car towed to the dealer ship?
11-09-2010, 08:49 PM
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and my car does not even seem liek it is starting to turn over... if you check the video i posted u will hear what i mean...
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Originally Posted by greatdagger
well how can i tell it is flooded.... cause i tried what the book said ..and did nothing.... pluse there is no oily exhaust comming out of my car..... and my local guy said that he check the spark plugs adn they looked fine...so i figure that if it was flooded they woudl not be be workign right cause of being wet?
and my car does not even seem liek it is starting to turn over... if you check the video i posted u will hear what i mean...
and my car does not even seem liek it is starting to turn over... if you check the video i posted u will hear what i mean...
Now the car is driving fine, but yes, it was exactly the same as your video too.
11-09-2010, 09:39 PM
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k well i will go down to the shop were my car is at and try it out frist... before i call mazda to come pick it up and try to fix it..... pluse i will ask the guy to see if he can tell if it it flooded.....(only thing is they never worked on a mazda rx8 before ..so i hope they woudl be able to tell)
also do u have any advice to how to do this?
also do u have any advice to how to do this?
11-09-2010, 10:02 PM
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k well i will go down to the shop were my car is at and try it out frist... before i call mazda to come pick it up and try to fix it..... pluse i will ask the guy to see if he can tell if it it flooded.....(only thing is they never worked on a mazda rx8 before ..so i hope they woudl be able to tell)
also do u have any advice to how to do this?
also do u have any advice to how to do this?
11-11-2010, 07:45 PM
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well i had to bring my car to the dealer.... it was flooded really bad by what they said... but they did not charge me ...said it was covered under my warranty...but they also said one of the ignition coil were bad..so they said it needed to be replaced... so they still got $112 out of me...erhh
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