mornings are getting colder....any tips...

mycarhatesme · Post by **mycarhatesme** » September 15th, 2005, 7:12 am

i love my car, but it doesnt love me....

it wont start this morning

**calling a cab and waitin for it, so i thought id post this**

it turns.....*pausssssseeeeeee* clik, it turns......but it doesnt catch, it pauses for a about 1.5 seconds before it turns.....scary..im not driving it like that....

also, i saw some joke on this kid, his buddies hooked up his horn to his break....poor kid made it down the street as his buddies laughed and video taped it.

poor sucka.

azazel95 · Post by **azazel95** » September 15th, 2005, 5:16 pm

I don't know about your engine question but if you can get ahold of that video I'd love to see it

neutral · Post by **neutral** » September 15th, 2005, 6:21 pm

How old is your battery. Cool/cold weather will nearly kill or outright kill a battery that's near the end of its life.

hgallegos915 · Post by **hgallegos915** » September 15th, 2005, 8:24 pm

yuo..batteries die in cold wether..get a new one. I had your exact same issue.

mycarhatesme · Post by **mycarhatesme** » September 15th, 2005, 9:17 pm

ill pick one up tomorrow...thanks for the advice.

sk8erdude28 · Post by **sk8erdude28** » September 15th, 2005, 9:43 pm

azazel95 wrote:I don't know about your engine question but if you can get ahold of that video I'd love to see it

dude, it's all over the internet.

Typhoonk · Post by **Typhoonk** » September 15th, 2005, 11:23 pm

Before you shell out some cash for anything. Clean off ur battery terminals and the battery cable connects. Could just be a loose cable connect

good luck

oh ya here's the link for the 'brake' thing

http://www.jokaroo.com/funnyvideos/brakehorn.html

azazel95 · Post by **azazel95** » September 15th, 2005, 11:45 pm

sk8erdude28 wrote:
azazel95 wrote:I don't know about your engine question but if you can get ahold of that video I'd love to see it
dude, it's all over the internet.

dude, there's a lot of stuff on the net.

And that vid is pretty funny.

BuGS · Post by **BuGS** » September 16th, 2005, 1:04 am

Get an optima, best investment in my car

Nd4SpdSe · Post by **Nd4SpdSe** » September 16th, 2005, 10:15 am

Exactly! That's why I got 2!

No kidding, I never had any problems even when I drove my car in the winter, even on the coldest days, no problemo at all turning over. Absolutely amazing cold weather performance.

mycarhatesme · Post by **mycarhatesme** » September 16th, 2005, 12:08 pm

my car is spitting out gas out of my exhuast. im sure that has something to do with it.

i did what u said, and im def. getting full battery power.

im just at a lost for words, for all the problems im having. i keep thinking, damn it, why me....however, it is a 1992, and its still hanging in there pretty good for a car that wasnt maintained by its previous owner.

the gas out of the muffler is driving me nuts...it literally spits it out when i rev the car hard....very scary.

ariesdude · Post by **ariesdude** » September 16th, 2005, 5:18 pm

i am a newbie i dont know enough about mx-3 yet - but could it be that there is no combustion in one or more cylinders and the fuel that was injected is just pushed out. The problems causing no combustion could be bad spark plugs, bad spark plug wires, bad distributor, timing issues or wrong air/fuel ratio (too much fuel being injected that smothers the flame) - i guess that would bring up bad injectors too.

Well, How sure are you that actual gas is coming out and its not gas smelling water - i read somewhere that it is common for condensate water to spew out of exhaust. if it was actual gas - wouldnt it evaporate long before reaching the tail pipe because of the exhaust temparature?

mycarhatesme · Post by **mycarhatesme** » September 16th, 2005, 6:07 pm

i just bought some spark plugs, its rainning like crazy here, so when it stops, im going to put the new ones in...see how she rolls.

DaRepoMan73 · Post by **DaRepoMan73** » September 16th, 2005, 6:40 pm

Actually....cold DOES NOT kill batteries. That's why you store them in the cols and they will last longer. Heat kills batteries you just don't notice until it is cold and your battery has to work harder to turn over a cold engine.
Just thought I would add my 2 cents

DaRepoMan73 · Post by **DaRepoMan73** » September 16th, 2005, 6:42 pm

Oh...and the gas coming out of the exhaust could be a burnt exhaust valve if you have a sohc 1.6. They are prone to it