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Old 01-11-2010, 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Craig View Post
In my experience, touching the peddle makes it less likely to initially catch. I assume that injecting excess cold fuel just cools down the pre-chamber more. I have gotten the best results by cranking without touching the peddle until its actually running, then using the minimum peddle required to keep it running.
It's printed in the owner's manual of these cars for cold starts. Just one pump, then crank. It seems to help with starting my car in the morning, but like I said, Socal weather isn't really cold enough to matter. It's a matter of cranking for 1 second when using the one pump method vs. 3 seconds without.
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