Re: Not Starting in Cold

#1

Travis King wrote:

Quote:

1988 Pontiac 6000 2.5L 125,000 miles. I apologize in advance to those
who do not like to see attachments in newsgroups. Here it is trying to
start at 6 above, and it wouldn't do it. I think the battery went dead.
I just started and ran the car yesterday for probably a good 15 minutes
but the cold probably drained it down. It turned over slow, but it
started and ran even with the four inches of snow covering it. The
coldest temperature I've ever got it to start at was -3 even on a
battery charger all night and it still took two tries and turned over
this slow and the motor had problems to stay running. I did get the
motor to run twice today, but the motor would die within two seconds. If
you listen closely to this sound, you'll hear the motor try to run
once. I also noticed a little bit of antifreeze on the engine when I
lifted the hood on the driver's side. I go through this every year of
the car not starting even when the battery was new on cold days. So,
what else besides a dead battery is causing this? Thanks. The battery
is three years old. I forgot how many cold cranking amps it has, but I
remember that it should have plenty of cold cranking amps for the cold.
Got the battery fully charged and it still wouldn't start. The

temperature is 10 (F). The motor kept backfiring also. The voltage was
12.2.

#2

Travis King wrote:

Quote:

Travis King wrote:
1988 Pontiac 6000 2.5L 125,000 miles. I apologize in advance to those
who do not like to see attachments in newsgroups. Here it is trying
to start at 6 above, and it wouldn't do it. I think the battery went
dead. I just started and ran the car yesterday for probably a good 15
minutes but the cold probably drained it down. It turned over slow,
but it started and ran even with the four inches of snow covering it.
The coldest temperature I've ever got it to start at was -3 even on a
battery charger all night and it still took two tries and turned over
this slow and the motor had problems to stay running. I did get the
motor to run twice today, but the motor would die within two seconds.
If you listen closely to this sound, you'll hear the motor try to run
once. I also noticed a little bit of antifreeze on the engine when I
lifted the hood on the driver's side. I go through this every year of
the car not starting even when the battery was new on cold days. So,
what else besides a dead battery is causing this? Thanks. The
battery is three years old. I forgot how many cold cranking amps it
has, but I remember that it should have plenty of cold cranking amps
for the cold.
Got the battery fully charged and it still wouldn't start. The
temperature is 10 (F). The motor kept backfiring also. The voltage was
12.2.
Finally got it to start and it kept dying the first few times. It still

turned over poorly. The motor also missed big time for a while.

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Re: Not Starting in Cold

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