Hello all,

    I'm trying to help a friend out to try to diagnose a problem on
his 2001 Protege. He has about 60k on the car and he is noticing the
following problem.

-if i start the car in the morning and drive continuously, there is no
issue
-if i have driven it, shut it down...when i restart it boggs down and
misses until i start driving it down the road and it comes back to life

I had him reset the ECU but the check engine light and problem still
persists. Do you think that it is possible that the spark plug wires are
bad? He has replaced the spark plugs and none of them showed any
deteriorations.  If this was the case, wouldn't the problem happen all
of the time? Any other suggestions?

Also I know on Honda's there is a way to short out 2 pins using a paper
clip on the ODB port and reading out the check engine light for the
error code. Is there anything similar on this Protege?

Thanks for all the help in advance,

Nick