MR2 Turbo Hesitant Startup

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mr299ron
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MR2 Turbo Hesitant Startup

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So I finished work at 10pm tonight, after getting into work at 2pm. So the car had been left for 8 hours.

Starting up the car, it took a little longer than usual before igniting and starting, where I had to then put a little throttle in and it would pick up and start, because the car would almost die if I didn't feel fuel into the car. The drive back was fine, she pulled and drove really well. (My commute to work is awesome when there's no traffic :D)

I recently had an incident with running out of fuel, and before you laugh, my fuel gauge is apparently inaccurate, as I wasn't even on empty and she ran out. The fuel gauge also doesn't read above half, even on a full tank.

However, I knew I had loads of fuel because I had only done 40 miles since a 40L fill just a couple of days ago.

Any ideas as to what this could be? It does actually happen more often than not. It doesn't do it on a stone cold start, say after 12+ hours, but it will do if it's starting back up again after say 8 or less hours, and more than a couple..

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Re: MR2 Turbo Hesitant Startup

Post by mr299ron »

To add to this,

The person I bought it off a couple of weeks ago has said the car has been off the road for about half a year, but had serviced it (which ive done anyway) changed the water pump, timing belt etc. I haven't changed the sparks or HT leads as of yet however.
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Re: MR2 Turbo Hesitant Startup

Post by Odin_S »

HT and diss cap would be what i would do, AFTER an oil change. i would do this as a piece of mind.
mr299ron
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Re: MR2 Turbo Hesitant Startup

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I have already completed an oil change, so I guess I'll get onto the HT leads and distributor caps ASAP.

I will update this thread in the near future.

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Re: MR2 Turbo Hesitant Startup

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So after work today it was fine! So strange..
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