went out for lunch during break w/ 2 guys in my car, 1 of them was about 250lbs+.
took the max 2 cranks to start. this seems like it only occurs when a heavy person is in the car.

whenever i try myself or have someone that isn't a fatass, it cranks fine.
why is that?

it means no fat chix LOL

My car dont do that, did he fart in your intake?

sounds like the cars riding so low he's pinching off the fuel lines.

Get him to sit on the other side.


...or walk

really......

well he was sittin in the passenger seat when this happened.

this also happened when another big guy tried to start my car long ago.
he tried to crank it, failed, he got out, i got in, and it started fine...

is there a solution to this? glad i'm not fat

According to FSM, the situation to jam fuel lines only happens on jacking up Maximas. Jacking up at wrong places could hurt the fuel lines. I don't think heavy passenger could affect that. You must be joking.



That's a good idea.


g4nismo: What's the fuel level when it happened? If it is close to empty, the crank-more-time thing is pretty common. If not, it's clueless to me.

it actually was pretty low, barely touching the E line.

You could try to start the car on an incline (try all 4 orientations) to see if a tilt on the car stops the gas from finding the plug hole (as it were) I've often wondered if they put the gas line offset from bottom and how this would affect running out of gas (i.e could you go further by reversing uphill?)


Other than that, perhaps the seat belt detectors also function as a excessive load switch. (now I'm being silly again)

It's that simple: your max is ashamed and gets sick of carrying fat $$$ people
Or it may be accustomed to your weight over the years and when heavy peoply sit they may ruin that balance and the car doesn't start.< lol.

That explans.

AFAIK, a lot of 4th gens have such "take-more-time-to-crank" issues when fuel level is low. The fasto is the last straw. It's nothing to do with the "hard-to-start" event.