Help car dies after short time
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Help car dies after short time
Okay now I have another problem with my car. The other day I went to start it and let it warm up because its relatively cold here and it died about after a minute and wouldn't start again. However I had ran it a couple hours before and it was fine. So today I went to start it and it fired right up like it should and I drove it around for a few hours and it worked great. It got a little colder this evening and I went to run an errand and it died a couple minutes away from home...I waited for a bit and it started again, so I headed home and on the final turn it did it again...Is there something on these cars that doesn't work well in minus 20 celcius? I also have about a 3/4 full tank and even put some gas line antifreeze in because thats what I thought it might be before but now I don't know. I am 99% sure I have spark becuase I had checked it a few months ago and even just recently put new plugs and wires in. It seems like it only does it when its really cold and I am thinking its a fuel issue.
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Okay now I have another problem with my car. The other day I went to start it and let it warm up because its relatively cold here and it died about after a minute and wouldn't start again. However I had ran it a couple hours before and it was fine. So today I went to start it and it fired right up like it should and I drove it around for a few hours and it worked great. It got a little colder this evening and I went to run an errand and it died a couple minutes away from home...I waited for a bit and it started again, so I headed home and on the final turn it did it again...Is there something on these cars that doesn't work well in minus 20 celcius? I also have about a 3/4 full tank and even put some gas line antifreeze in because thats what I thought it might be before but now I don't know. I am 99% sure I have spark becuase I had checked it a few months ago and even just recently put new plugs and wires in. It seems like it only does it when its really cold and I am thinking its a fuel issue.
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Okay so I went to try and start it today and it wouldn't just cranked over and over, I'm pretty sure it wasn't getting enough fuel...anyways more to the point I was looking around in my engine bay and trying to see if I could smell gas, and I noticed that one of the hoses (the smaller of the two) to the charcoal canister was disconnected, my question is what does this thing actually do? I would like to know as well as would this contribute to a starting issue? It started once I connected it but I want to know if this is why.
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