Hey Guys,

Well I will be back home in New Zealand in about a month.
In the mean time my rx is in the shop having a new clutch/flywheel/etc...fitted however the car has pretty much not been turned over for the past 6 months (as i've been overseas) - I will be replacing the battery with a brand spanking new one, but just wondering if there is anything I should look out for when I start it?

Anything I should do before I start it?

Cheers people

 

Should be fine. You might have some extra spark plugs on hand.

 

Cheers Mahjik

Shops only down the road for new sparks but only replced them about 1500km ago.
The tank is also practically empty so will refill that with fresh fuel when I get home and see how it goes

 

Ooo another NZer on here. Where abouts in Auckland are you from? Im on the Shore.

 

Yeah theres few of us here, just most don't post
I'm from South near Botany

Cant wait to get her back on the road when I get home!

 

Yeah you should be fine. Maybe a couple gallons of fresh gas? It wouldnt hurt.

I would change oil though.

On another note, i wanna visit NZ, i hear its really nice there.

 

yeah I have to do that anyway since theres nothing in the fuel tank
will definately do the oil to, i replace that about every 2000-3000km

and yeah nz is pretty nice, heres some pics from a few weeks ago
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...9&id=844160581

 

Hey mate, Howick here..... I had my car left for 1 year and 2 months before restarting it, and apart from the initial clouds of smoke and misfires, it ran beautifully after that.

Which shop is working on it?

cheers!

 

it's just in a mates workshop out west - doing a mates rates job (NZ$250) while im away
haven't actually paid for any workshop yet lol, it's been in Hyper, Kiwi-RE and mates workshop out east

cheers for the info though yeah i think it should be sweet as it was running good until I blew my clutch out and its been garaged for about 3 months and under cover for the last 3 months - not like weather has been bad to it

 

engine failure




just kidding

 

I'm going to hijack this thread as my topic seems to be along the same lines. Last month, I tried to fire up the car when it was 10 degrees F out and the car wouldn't hold idle and died prematurely, causing it to flood. It had been sitting for about 2 months before this. I just fired it up now after a few attempts of long cranking. It started but of course was smoking very badly out of the exhaust. Then, I noticed white smoke from the passenger side area of the engine bay. It's definitely white and doesn't smell sweet. I just did a search and the opinions for this symptom seem to be a coolant leak to a leaking turbo to burning fuel due to the flooding. The car ran beautifully before sitting for the winter. Any ideas and/or reassurance would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

exhaust leak?

 

It only starts smoking once the car becomes warm. Wouldn't an exhaust leak start smoking right away? I just hope it's nothing major....crossing my fingers for condensation.

 

Condensation wont make smoke come out of the engine bay.

If anything, you have a cracked/leaky coolant hose somewhere that is leaking onto something.

As the engine builds heat (when you say you see smoke when engine is warm) is when this heat is burning off this coolant and thats the smoke you are seeing.

 

i have the same problem too.. but it sucks even more because when i take of to the gas station, smokes starts coming out from under the hood like my engine is going to go kaboom... but since now its been raining i cant do nothing about it.

 

you will probably need a new battery. Or you can put it on trickle charge or something.

 

he said he has a new battery in his first post..