brief story:
drove to work yesterday 11/11/03, parked it in the garage everything was fine...at 5 pm trying to get my car started it would not start (this past weekend it happened to me where the car would not start on 3 separate occassion but i got it to start somehow jus playing with it)
..anyways we tried to jump start the car no luck its still would not start....

...i finally got it to start today 11/12 but it shuts off
...im thinking it might be the thermostat
car is running hot...
...fuel injection is flooded
i only have basic bolt on i/h/e.....(auto tranny by the way)

 

Yup. Sound's like a thermo problem. When you turn the key to ON, how high does the temp gauge shoot?

When you turn the key to start, does the motor crank, or do you just hear a click? My Tercel would click when you turned the key if it was too hot, and never crank. New thermo fixed that problem right before the clutch fell out.

 

it cranks but it just would not start last night........
...

 

It's dealer-time, my friend. Basic bolt ons shouldn't have anything to do with the thermo, so the service department should just fix it under warrany.

 

....i was able to drive the car home......
and it was overheating....
...im hopinf the dealership im bringing it to
won't give me **** cuz of the basic mods i have...

 

im sure they will... good luck though keep us posted

 

i was at a gas station in South Carolina around 3 am on interstate 95. my car couldnt start for some reason and me and my cousin got freaked cause no one was at the gas station and we where off on some dirt road. i was playing around with it and it turned on finally.... i had to turn the wheel and turn the key at the same time... the dealer never told me about this and i only had my car for like 3 weeks..

 

Is your coolant/antifreeze level alright?

 

i drove to a local auto shop by my house....
had them look at my car....
....he couldn't fine anything wrong with it
except for low on coolant/antifreeze....
i also had the thermostat replace to be safe...
and a screw lose by the timing belt that was making
a clicking noise...

*drove around yesterday.......
everything was fine....
*but i called the dealership that i recently had the 15k checkup
and ***** a/b how could they not fill up my fluids and check
thoroughly....

 

ahh that sucks, u should give that dealer tons of crap for not doing what they said right! but glad to hear everything is ok now!

 

haha talk about crappy customer service. My dealer tried to add on some 2500$ warranty package that i never ordered on the final price of my car and 2 weeks after i got my car the steering pump went.. got.. car dealers are retarded

 

ya i know what u mean. sometimes its just cheaper to go around the dealer than the dealer unless u have a warranty.

 

thats crap, when i had intake, headers, and exhaust, my dealership actually complimented my car and said they liked how it sounded, they did everything they could unless it involed a mod, the onyl thing they said they never did was change air filters (obviously because of the intake) and they couldnt ?check/clean? exhaust manifold

 

...consider yourself lucky i guess....
....anyways im bringing my car in to the dealership...
cuz i couldn't get my car started again a couple of times....
knowing them they'll prolly deny it cuz of the foglight i got
installed....