I went out to start my car this cold, rainy morning when the unexpected happened. When I cranked the car over, it started but then stalled after about 3 seconds. I then went to crank it over again and it wouldn't start. I tried 3 times and on the last attempt I just kept cranking because it sounded like it was just about there. I backed off and the max was running but running extremely rough for about 5 seconds and then it started running fine. I let it warm up for about 5 minutes then shut it off and it started right up again without any problems.

Any Ideas what might have happened? Bad gas?

Thanks
Cabowabo

'02 max se

 

Could be bad spark plugs.

 

I had the same thing happen to me 2 or 3 months after I bought my car. It hasn't happened since so I guess it wasn't anything. Could just be bad gas like you said. If it does it again I'd take it to the dealer otherwise I wouldn't worry about it.

 

Cold damp morning, lots of moisture, dense air. It probably started, fouled out slightly do to the dense cold moist air. Then upon restart, being it was fouled a bit with excess gas, it had a hard time, then cleared up. Believe it or not, your car may not run perfect 100% of the time. Even I have a hard time getting out of bed on mornings like that.

 

cars are people too, ya know

 

Thanks for the replies.

I've just never had that happen before on any new car I've had in the past. I just get a little suspicious of this car because a couple of months ago I had an issue where the car lost all power. I gave it gas and it would go nowhere at all. It felt like when you mash the gas when your doing 30mph in 6th gear but I wasn't in sixth, I think I was in 2nd. Next time I started the car, it was fine, like nothing ever happened.

I was planning on keeping this car until it blows up but there's some weird stuff going on with it every once in while that I think a car with 16K miles should not have.

Cabowabo

 

Exactly.