jonbad
Member
Hi all,
Hopefully a simple one for all you A2 gurus out there!
Car started fine several times today, but has been sat for the last 2 weeks with only occasional starting as I'd been doing it up etc.
Drove to a local supermarket and parked up (temp up to 90), did some shopping and then went back to the car and it would not start a few times.
The symptom was it turned over fine (i.e. battery was fine) but it would not catch for 3 to 4 attempts, then it did start. Temp would have probably dropped to 45 or thereabouts after the shopping duration. I might have put a little throttle and pushed the clutch down to ease the rotation of the engine but I don't know if that would affect it. The only other thing was the fuel was pretty low. Mind you, not low enough to give me a fuel warning light. As the car started on the 4th/5th attempt, I drove it to a petrol station and filled it up completely - and in the meanwhile obviously turned the engine off - and the car started absolutely perfectly on the forecourt and engine temperature was at 90.
So, is this a crankshaft sensor problem, a throttle body, something else entirely, or merely a low/dirty fuel issue and a one off?!
Any help/advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Hopefully a simple one for all you A2 gurus out there!
Car started fine several times today, but has been sat for the last 2 weeks with only occasional starting as I'd been doing it up etc.
Drove to a local supermarket and parked up (temp up to 90), did some shopping and then went back to the car and it would not start a few times.
The symptom was it turned over fine (i.e. battery was fine) but it would not catch for 3 to 4 attempts, then it did start. Temp would have probably dropped to 45 or thereabouts after the shopping duration. I might have put a little throttle and pushed the clutch down to ease the rotation of the engine but I don't know if that would affect it. The only other thing was the fuel was pretty low. Mind you, not low enough to give me a fuel warning light. As the car started on the 4th/5th attempt, I drove it to a petrol station and filled it up completely - and in the meanwhile obviously turned the engine off - and the car started absolutely perfectly on the forecourt and engine temperature was at 90.
So, is this a crankshaft sensor problem, a throttle body, something else entirely, or merely a low/dirty fuel issue and a one off?!
Any help/advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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