this morning i fired up my car and drove it around for a while and brought it home and then later on i started it up again and drove around for a while longer. this afternoon i go out to start...actually needing to get somewhere and nothing....it turned over for a long time and over and over i tried everything i can think of...the battery is giving power...its a big battery...and i have no idea what it could be...any help please..i am at the end of my rope with this damn car

 

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bad connections. have ou checked to make sure you are getting spark. have you checked to see if it is flooding. did you talk nice to it or yell at it. does hard starting run in its family?

 

well it could be flooding because it kinda smells like gas when it cranks. i think there is spark because it is turning over...if i wanted to adjust the fuel crap to make it stop flooding what would i have to do...or is it a computer issue that the dealer has to deal with

 

Whenever my old 87 se flooded, it would have a different sound when it cranked. It would almost sound like it wasn't quite catching, if that makes any sense. The rotors would be spinning but it would have a totally different sound, and that's how I knew that it was flooded.

When it was flooded, I would just hook it up to a running car and keep cranking it until I burnt out all of the extra gas. It would smoke like a mug for about a minute.

 

so just crank for a while hooked to another car and that should take care of the flooding problem? or is it gonna happen over and over. and also could it be anything else than that?

 

Never take your car to mazda. They know less than you do about these cars usually.

Run a search for flooding. Id type out the procedure, but to tell you the truth Ive typed it like 10 times in the past 3 days.

 

hahaha ok man thanks for the help