Q: Smelling fuel,hesitating to start or starting after 2 cranks,rpm gauge and jumps a little at start up.Runs perfect on the road!
Smelling fuel,hesitating to start or starting after 2 cranks,rpm gauge and car jumps a little at start up....Runs/ performs perfect on the road!
I've been smelling the fuel for a month or so , but i'm concerned now about the starting issue. First thing in the morning it hesitates or sometimes wouldn't start at all on the first crank , or after leaving it for 30 mins-hours it does the same thing ! but recently i learned to let the fuel pump warm up before starting and it starts up normal ..sometimes
Serviced in October, had a misfire 2 weeks ago & changed my coils again , misfire started again a week ago and i changed one broken spark plug.
My car has 180000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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