05-07-2008, 01:49 PM
My wife has a trick she's pulled twice with my 968. She does something in trying to move the car out of the driveway that causes it to fail to start, last time for about a week.
First time this happened was last summer, within a week of having had major service done (fluids, filters, belts, timing belt, water pump, brake rotors/pads, variocam tensioner/chain, spark plugs and wires, plus fixing a battery drain) The 968 refused to start for me for a couple of tries in the evening until a week later when I had a day to actually diagnose the problem, when the problem upped and vanished. With the problem I get dashboard lights, the starter spins, I can hear the fuel pump going and it just doesn't start. I've got a spare DME relay, swapping that in doesn't make a difference.
The car sits for too long most of the time, but I did get to put a thousand miles on it over a long weekend road trip (I went right past Hershey - family stuff kept me from dropping in at the meet), and it ran fine. The only troubles on the trip were a CD player that froze up, a headlight that needs a nudge to fall back down, and a gas gauge that's gone unreliable. (350 miles on this tank and it still reads 3/4ths? How odd!)
Does anyone have an idea? My guess is that either the engine is flooded (requiring a week to evaporate the excess gas) or maybe the flap in the gas line that keeps the fuel up to pressure has gone intermitantly wonky - but how would the driver make a difference to that?
First time this happened was last summer, within a week of having had major service done (fluids, filters, belts, timing belt, water pump, brake rotors/pads, variocam tensioner/chain, spark plugs and wires, plus fixing a battery drain) The 968 refused to start for me for a couple of tries in the evening until a week later when I had a day to actually diagnose the problem, when the problem upped and vanished. With the problem I get dashboard lights, the starter spins, I can hear the fuel pump going and it just doesn't start. I've got a spare DME relay, swapping that in doesn't make a difference.
The car sits for too long most of the time, but I did get to put a thousand miles on it over a long weekend road trip (I went right past Hershey - family stuff kept me from dropping in at the meet), and it ran fine. The only troubles on the trip were a CD player that froze up, a headlight that needs a nudge to fall back down, and a gas gauge that's gone unreliable. (350 miles on this tank and it still reads 3/4ths? How odd!)
Does anyone have an idea? My guess is that either the engine is flooded (requiring a week to evaporate the excess gas) or maybe the flap in the gas line that keeps the fuel up to pressure has gone intermitantly wonky - but how would the driver make a difference to that?
