My 2000 T/A Ws6
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Staging Lane
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From: Illinois
My 2000 T/A Ws6 I live in illinois and as im sure everyone knows, it gets COLD here in the winter. Therefore i park my ws6 in my garage in the winter. I apparently left the door open and the battery was dead, so i went to start it and if failed to start. i charged it for a few hours anf then tried 2 more times to start it and i got it started on the second time. I have a corsa catback exhaust on it and when the car started it was super quiet and then it got loud like it should be afer a few minutes, but it was backfireing and sounding like ****. My dad said he thinks the engine was flooded. How could my engine have been flooded if i didnt pump the gas pedal at all and i havent been driving it? we fired it up later that night again and it was running amazingly like it should. We backed out onto my driveway and let the car run for a bit and revved it after it warmed up and things are great. But there was a small oil puddle under my car and i was wondering where it could be coming from? possibly my intake? does anyone know why my car was running like ****? or why there was oil/ where it could be coming from?
(p.s. i start my car every 2 weeks in my garage in the winter so it doesnt just sit for 3-4 months)
(p.s. i start my car every 2 weeks in my garage in the winter so it doesnt just sit for 3-4 months)
Wimp. Seriously - get your Dad to OK a spin in an empty parking lot after it snows and learn how to control your skids. You'll be a much safer driver on wet and dry pavement as a result. The car has so much power, its possible to get it really bad skids during the summer! BTW - My stock car does fine in IL snow up to 8 inches.
I apparently left the door open and the battery was dead, so i went to start it and if failed to start. i charged it for a few hours anf then tried 2 more times to start it and i got it started on the second time. I have a corsa catback exhaust on it and when the car started it was super quiet and then it got loud like it should be afer a few minutes, but it was backfireing and sounding like ****. My dad said he thinks the engine was flooded. How could my engine have been flooded if i didnt pump the gas pedal at all and i havent been driving it? we fired it up later that night again and it was running amazingly like it should. We backed out onto my driveway and let the car run for a bit and revved it after it warmed up and things are great. But there was a small oil puddle under my car and i was wondering where it could be coming from? possibly my intake? does anyone know why my car was running like ****? or why there was oil/ where it could be coming from?
(p.s. i start my car every 2 weeks in my garage in the winter so it doesn't just sit for 3-4 months)
(p.s. i start my car every 2 weeks in my garage in the winter so it doesn't just sit for 3-4 months)
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Wimp. Seriously - get your Dad to OK a spin in an empty parking lot after it snows and learn how to control your skids. You'll be a much safer driver on wet and dry pavement as a result. The car has so much power, its possible to get it really bad skids during the summer! BTW - My stock car does fine in IL snow up to 8 inches.
Last edited by FiredUpZ28; Jan 24, 2011 at 01:30 PM.
I'm with FiredUp....I have two cars, why would I want to take my Formula out of the garage (never seen road salt btw) and drive it when I could drive my 20 year old heavy FWD car with all-seasons? I don't think anybody is saying that you can't drive an fbody in the winter, but if you have an alternative why would you?
Although, I do agree that it's probably just the PCM needing to relearn so it's back to normal.
Although, I do agree that it's probably just the PCM needing to relearn so it's back to normal.
If Jimmy has two cars, I want his Dad to adopt me!
BTW - I was suggesting driving in the snow. (Not salted roads - I take the bus over that, but I don't miss driving in the new snow.) I also live in the city, so I don't have to deal with the broken roads or crazy drivers...
BTW - I was suggesting driving in the snow. (Not salted roads - I take the bus over that, but I don't miss driving in the new snow.) I also live in the city, so I don't have to deal with the broken roads or crazy drivers...
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Staging Lane
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ya i have a lincoln navigator for the winter. i prefer to keep my car free from salt, if you didnt know wwssix99, salt destroys cars, so y would i drive mine if i dont have to? i just share navigator with my dad in the winter. and dude u shud really not make ur name wssix99 when you have a formula. ur a total clueless dick and your a poser off the ws6, ur car will never be a trans am or a trans am ws6, its a firebird.
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Verdad Gallardo Relax. I wasn't meaning to be a 
. If I was, I wouldn't have injected "seriously" in my first post. Lots of people go on and on about how these cars "can't" be driven in the winter, which is a load of rubbish. (In the end, there is nothing that road salt will do to one car more than another.) If you have a garage and have access to a car wash with a salt wash, the car will preserve just fine. (I had a friend who never took his Firebird out in the rain, so he could say it never got "wet." But he did wash it... with water... so kind of crazy.)
Please disregard the looks of the ******* that I've pulled over my head with my earlier sarcasm. In all seriousness, locking the car up in the garage 100% all winter because you live in "Illinois" is a bit extreme. (Some winters it doesn't even snow.)
If you are really worried about the car and want to keep it in pristine condition, you may want to take the following things in to account:
- Are you the first owner? If not, are you sure the first owner took the same care of it? (If not, you already have salt eating away at the insides of the frame rails.)
- If you are going to rest the car all winter, why not take the battery out and properly put it in storage? Idling the car in the garage every couple of weeks will do more damage to the engine than properly putting it in to storage. Either way, once the PCM is reset - you will need to take it for a drive or use a special scan tool to get the thing to re-calibrate.
. If I was, I wouldn't have injected "seriously" in my first post. Lots of people go on and on about how these cars "can't" be driven in the winter, which is a load of rubbish. (In the end, there is nothing that road salt will do to one car more than another.) If you have a garage and have access to a car wash with a salt wash, the car will preserve just fine. (I had a friend who never took his Firebird out in the rain, so he could say it never got "wet." But he did wash it... with water... so kind of crazy.)Please disregard the looks of the ******* that I've pulled over my head with my earlier sarcasm. In all seriousness, locking the car up in the garage 100% all winter because you live in "Illinois" is a bit extreme. (Some winters it doesn't even snow.)
If you are really worried about the car and want to keep it in pristine condition, you may want to take the following things in to account:
- Are you the first owner? If not, are you sure the first owner took the same care of it? (If not, you already have salt eating away at the insides of the frame rails.)
- If you are going to rest the car all winter, why not take the battery out and properly put it in storage? Idling the car in the garage every couple of weeks will do more damage to the engine than properly putting it in to storage. Either way, once the PCM is reset - you will need to take it for a drive or use a special scan tool to get the thing to re-calibrate.
