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09-28-02, 01:36 AM

808FC

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problems starting

this happens everytime whether the car is cold or has warmed up.

i turn the key and the engine starts. after about a second the idle gets rough and the car dies. then i turn the key again and it starts up perfiectly fine, nice and smooth.

it takes me 2 tries EVERYTIME i want to start the car. at first i didnt mind but it gets kinda irrataing after a while. im planning to change the starter soon but i dont know if thatll fix the prob.

any other ideas on what it could be????

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09-28-02, 01:59 AM

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sounds like what happened to me with my FB. It turned out to be the fuel pump. It would not work intermittently like that. As soon as I replaced it, problem gone.

Unfortunately that was $220 of diagnostic work later.

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09-28-02, 02:25 AM

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I'm thinking it's the fuel pump.
As I recall the fuel pump operates in two different voltages one for starting and wot a lesser for idle and city driving. But I've been wrong before.
P. S. change the fuel filter too, when a pump goes it plugs the filter(or at least it did on mine).