I know we have enough of these threads, so I apologize for starting another one. I've done a lot of searches and reading, and talked to my indy this morning. Just curious what you guys think. The car started fine most of the winter. During a bad cold snap in early Feb., it would not start, just cranked. GPs check out OK. The battery in it was very old, so I bought a new one from Autozone. Before I had a chance to put the new one in, the temps went up, car started, so I left the new battery in the back of my other car to put in later. About a week ago, the 300D wouldn't start again (it was about 25-30 degrees out), so three days ago I muscled the new battery in, started it up, A-OK. The next morning when I cold started it, it started but whew did it kick and bang around for about 10 seconds, then smoothed out. The next day, yesterday, it had even more trouble, even though it was about 40 degrees out. Once it had started, it was easy to start again immediately, but after sitting for about five hours was again a little rough on startup. This morning I checked the GPs cold, and sure enough 1 and 3 are bad. Then I tried to start it ... no go ... it's 55 degrees out! It seemed to me, and my indy agreed, that two bad plugs should not cause the car not to start when it is this warm out. He gave me some starter fluid and said to use a very little bit tomorrow to get the car started and bring it over to him. I'm sure he'll figure it out for me, but just out of curiousity, do you guys think it could be a battery issue? I just wonder because I did put the new battery in so recently ... and the new battery had sat in the back of the other car outside for a couple weeks, so many that had an effect on it? Or do you think it's just the GPs?

One other thing ... car is low on fuel ... not down to reserve yet, but low. Could it be a fuel delivery issue? I know if that's the case it might become more problematic the lower the fuel level gets. Just wondering.

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