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Old Sep 19, 2010 | 04:12 PM
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OK so my car has done this several times recently,it will start fine cold but when i drive down the street to put some gas in it (maybe a mile) it just cranks for awhile, finally fires but will idle extremely low until i rev it up a little.Im pretty sure i just need to change my pass. side plugs but would like to hear some other opinions before i tackle that nightmare.

Oh and it will only do this if i start it cold drive it for a little bit, shut it down then try and restart.if i drive it till its fully warmed up it'll restart fine.
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Old Sep 20, 2010 | 06:32 PM
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dude mine just started doing something like this.......sometimes it fires up and sometimes it cranks a couple times then fires up.......i just put new plugs in it about 2 months ago when i had it tuned.
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Old Sep 22, 2010 | 09:04 PM
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im kinda curious to figure this out too...my 93 would do it only sometimes when its hot or somewhere in between hot n cold...when it was cold itd fire right up every time...and now im noticing my 02 start to do it, havnt noticed a pattern yet
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