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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / General Car Topics / January 2005

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Car won't start ?

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Jason - 03 Jan 2005 08:29 GMT
Hi all,

I have a 1994 Mithsubishi KS Verada/Diamante v6 SOHC.

Today I had the car washed (a red herring i think as there was now washing
in the engine bay), we drove about 2kms to the local shopping centre.
Turned the car off.  We were there for about 10 minutes.

I went to restart the car and it failed to turnover - it did try intially
but then wouldn't even do that.

I have checked all the connections and plugs.  All the electricals and
battery seem to be running OK, appears to be no spark or engine turnover.

Any ideas ?

Thanks

Jason
Al Bundy - 03 Jan 2005 13:06 GMT
If it was one of those washes where they have the aggressive sprays
from underneath it may have gotten water into something. Why it would
go a distance and then quit works against my theory.
AZGuy - 04 Jan 2005 05:09 GMT
>Hi all,
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>Jason

I'm not sure I understood your post.  Are you saying you washed inside
the engine compartment?  If so, and if this car has a distributor and
distributor cap, what I used to see happen a lot was a warm/hot engine
would get washed, the engine would get started up but not run for very
long (your 2 km trip), then shut off, and then the car would not
start.  What happens is that all the water that was on the engine
turns to steam and some of it gets inside the distributor where it
condenses back into water.  Then the car no run.  I've found  a lot of
water inside some distributors from that.  I'm pretty sure it wasn't
water that was just sprayed in or the car would never have started in
the first place, that's why I think it was condensed steam.

The fix is to take the distributor cap off, the rotor off, and dry
everything inside it.
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Tim Kett - 04 Jan 2005 05:11 GMT
> Hi all,
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> Jason

Battery "seems" to be running ok ???

I would pull it and get it tested on a load tester. Autozone will test it. A
weak battery can run the radio, and even the headlights, but still not have
enough power to turn the motor over.
 
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