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<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="99%" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#000000"><td> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> <tr bgcolor="#000099"> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <font size="2" color="#ffffff" face="Verdana, Arial"> <b>T O P I C R E V I E W</b> </font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#dedfdf"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> <b>ilya</b> <br /><small>Member # 6164</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial"> <img src="https://californiafords.com/ubb/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.writeln(timestamp(new Date(2006,4,2,20,51,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><hr /> </font> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> My car starts up differently almost every time I start it. Sometimes it turns over within a milisecond, sometimes it takes 2 seconds. Usually it takes longer for it to start up from a warm-ish start than from a dead cold start (as in, drive the car, walk into a store, come out 10 minutes later, and the car doesn't start as well as it did when I first started it that day). <br /><br />What could be causing this? It's kind of embarassing sometimes... <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#f7f7f7"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> <b>hockeyguy713</b> <br /><small>Member # 5354</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial"> <img src="https://californiafords.com/ubb/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.writeln(timestamp(new Date(2006,4,3,5,22,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><hr /> </font> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by ilya:<br /><strong> My car starts up differently almost every time I start it. Sometimes it turns over within a milisecond, sometimes it takes 2 seconds. Usually it takes longer for it to start up from a warm-ish start than from a dead cold start (as in, drive the car, walk into a store, come out 10 minutes later, and the car doesn't start as well as it did when I first started it that day). <br /><br />What could be causing this? It's kind of embarassing sometimes... </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I know what you man <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" /> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#dedfdf"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> <b>blind</b> <br /><small>Member # 3052</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial"> <img src="https://californiafords.com/ubb/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.writeln(timestamp(new Date(2006,4,3,6,26,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><hr /> </font> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> bad ground on either battery to engine block, or engine block to frame.<br /><br />weak battery<br /><br />dying alternator causing weak battery<br /><br />battery terminals need replacing<br /><br />heatsoak on starter from longtubes getting it hot<br /><br /><br />just some things to check <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#f7f7f7"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> <b>5tang.wh0re</b> <br /><small>Member # 4979</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial"> <img src="https://californiafords.com/ubb/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.writeln(timestamp(new Date(2006,4,13,20,26,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><hr /> </font> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> sounds like a hot starter <br /> </font> </td></tr> </table></td></tr></table> <br /> <br />
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