blacktibby

Hey guy's,

This was an issue last year also in the winter time. If the temp drop's below freezing at night, and go to start my car in the morning I have to crank for 5 minutes to get it to turn over. If it's really cold out like -20 it won't turnover at all until the sun warms it up enough. I was just wondering if anyone had experienced anything similar, and what they did to correct the issue. I'm 99% sure that it's either the ECU or a fuse, and it's getting tons of fuel. My jeep does the same thing, with it however it's due to the solder on the ecu getting to cold and separating the connections.

The only way I can think of to test it is to take those hand warmer packs & place them around the ECU on a cold morning.

Anyone else have suggestions?

Thanks guys!

Tiburonsrule

I have had the same problem with a couple of my cars in the past(Tibby included). All i did was change out the batteries in both of them. since a battery is a chemical reaction its not as strong in cold weather. If a battery is already some what weak it will have a really hard time once temps start to drop.

blacktibby

Huh. Really? Maybe i should rephrase that, it cranks fine, but won't turn over as if it's not getting a spark.

Bullfrog

Have you tested to see if you are getting spark when its cold?

blacktibby

Yes.. and it is not. Until you crank on it forever, it slowly hicups .. then hicups somemore then idles ruff.. really ruff, then it's fine.

REDZMAN

ROUGH.

RUFF = Dog noise.

ROUGH = Just how your mother likes it (Trabeck).

Stocker

picky picky!

Tough = Chuck Norris. Tuff = New Camaro! lmao.gif

If you have another car, try starting it from that car's battery and that should give you a better idea if it's the battery or not. Could coilpacks have this fault? Seems like it only *could* bet the battery but I've been wrong before.

Mad_john

one word.

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blacktibby

OK, well the problem has worsened now. I tried to heat up the computer with a hairdryer, this had no effect then I tried various parts of the engine bay for testing. Again this had no affect on the starting of the car. So I’ve been storing it in the garage until I got a chance to look into it further. However when I was driving the GF to work today my check engine light started to flash (I'm assuming misfire). I was wondering has anyone ever seen a coil pack or sparkplugs fail when they're cold? I've seen coil's fail when there hot just not cold. If you have any other suggestions that’d be amazing…

Thanks guys.

Stocker

You

MUST

get the codes read

BEFORE

we can

help

!

While you are at the auto parts store getting the codes read, get the charging system checked out also. Both should be free services.