On 23 Feb 2004 15:35:58 GMT, tomminny@aol.com (TomM in NY) wrote:

>Thanks for your posts...
>The first time it wouldn't start we had driven to the movies...about 40 miles.
>Watched the movie-about two hours...came out and it would turn over but
>wouldn't start. I was afraid I was going to waste the battery so I let it sit
>and on the 4th or 5th try she fired.

That sounds awful like the main relay problem but I would have thought
would have been fixed by now in later models. Could also be the ignition
switch. You need to try to diagnose whether it's a fuel or ignition fault.
As someone else mentioned, it could be a fuel problem - maybe water - so it
might be worth shoving a bottle of isopropyl alcohol gas drier in the fuel
tank.

>The second time we had just backed it out of the garage and it sat for a good
>part of the day. When we tried to start it to put it back in, it didn't want
>to start.... I did push the pedal to the floor and she fired after a few
>tries. We had taken it to wash it that day so it might have had some moisture
>somewhere....

Very often that will leave the FI manifold flooded with fuel. When you try
to start later, the already flooded manifold gets even more fuel from the
"choked" starting.

Rgds, George Macdonald

"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??