01-21-2005, 02:08 PM
I'm not real familiar with your particular car, but some things could be easy to rule out. If you suspect that it might be a fuel problem, try some starting fluid in the intake before starting it.
Ignition problems can be a lot trickier. If it's a newer car, it could be the computer, or it could be a coil, cap and rotor, module, etc. It can get expensive to start swapping parts without knowing which one it is.
If the starter cranks the engine fast enough, then your battery's fine.
Is it a manual transmission? You could try push starting it, just to see if that works.
You could also try googling for answers. Just type in your car, engine and symptoms into google, and you might find a common problem, or at least a place to start.
In doing some searches through cartrackers.com and google, I keep seeing references to a main relay, which I guess would be a pretty common problem. You might want to investigate that.
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Ignition problems can be a lot trickier. If it's a newer car, it could be the computer, or it could be a coil, cap and rotor, module, etc. It can get expensive to start swapping parts without knowing which one it is.
If the starter cranks the engine fast enough, then your battery's fine.
Is it a manual transmission? You could try push starting it, just to see if that works.
You could also try googling for answers. Just type in your car, engine and symptoms into google, and you might find a common problem, or at least a place to start.
In doing some searches through cartrackers.com and google, I keep seeing references to a main relay, which I guess would be a pretty common problem. You might want to investigate that.
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