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Most of us at some point will either stall a cold engined Jimny, or start it and think - "Drat - I forgot XYZ" and turn it straight off after starting from cold.
The result is the bugger won;t start. You can turn it over and over and it won't start - unless you press the accelerator to the floor whilst turning it over and it'll fire straight away.
I just woke up a little while ago from a night shift to my Mrs telling me she needed to get out, was blocked in by the Jimny and had stalled it and couldn't get it started to get it out of the way. I told her to do this and it fired straight away - getting me out fo the dog house for blockingher in!
Kirkynut
The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win - Edgar Watson Howe.
Halford wrote: Yeh, what's that about then .... :huh:
mine
starts first and every time when cold with no throttle
but for a warm start, mostly have to give to it full throttle otherwise it doesn't catch
what gives oh wise ones :blink:
You should not have problems starting when hot unless you stalled it. Mine is a twin cam and under normal circumstances will start hot or cold with a turn of the key and no throttle.
When you stall it there is still power to the ecu, thus injectors, so they inject fuel till the crank shaft sensor senses no movement but it doesn't get burnt and wets the plugs.
By opening the throttle wide, you get enough air passing through to overcome this and she starts. Mazda RX8's suffer terribly from this on their rotary engine and it's bad news for them getting too much fuel in as it thins the oil and the cranking adds more and wears the tips of the rotor.
I don't know why yours is like that Halford. How many miles has it done?
Kirkynut
The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win - Edgar Watson Howe.
Hi Kirk, I've only done 40k on the dual cam VVT :dry:
wet plugs sounds likely, but I'd have thought that if the Crankshaft Sensor was faulty, the ECU warning light would illuminate on the dash
it also an intermittent fault (probably 40% of the time)
whatever the problem is .... think it's also related to my rubbish mpg of 28 mpg when driving gently ... apart from when I'm a speeding terrorist that is :evil:
might just have to get your wife come down and start it
:laugh: :laugh:
Foot to the floor is the flooded engine procedure for most modern cars. Our focus does the same if stalled, which i do .......quite often as the clutch is a lot more sensitive than my partner.
Nissan have the similar problem with cars on cold start. If you just move it by a few feet or drive a short distance and its not warmed up it floods it. You either have to let it warm up or not move it small distances. Only way to start it is bumping or swap the plugs as the others will be soaked.
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