A little embarrissing
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Went to get the car out of the garage this morning, tried to start the engine, brief splutter then stalls. Turn the engine over again, no sound of any attempt to fire, just hear the starter motor spinning really fast. Try a couple more times - still doesn't fire, just really worried about how fast that starter motor is spinning.
Phone up TVR assist and 2 hours later the RAC man appears. I describe the problem and he says I've flooded it, he gets loads of these with TVRs. He cranks the engine and it fires up immediately.
Really relieved it wasn't anything serious (had been suffering from real Speed 6 paranoia - images of engine out and back to Blackpool had been going through my mind), just can't get over that starter motor though - it must be a beast of of motor!
Phone up TVR assist and 2 hours later the RAC man appears. I describe the problem and he says I've flooded it, he gets loads of these with TVRs. He cranks the engine and it fires up immediately.
Really relieved it wasn't anything serious (had been suffering from real Speed 6 paranoia - images of engine out and back to Blackpool had been going through my mind), just can't get over that starter motor though - it must be a beast of of motor!
martinp said:
Went to get the car out of the garage this morning, tried to start the engine, brief splutter then stalls. Turn the engine over again, no sound of any attempt to fire, just hear the starter motor spinning really fast. Try a couple more times - still doesn't fire, just really worried about how fast that starter motor is spinning.
Phone up TVR assist and 2 hours later the RAC man appears. I describe the problem and he says I've flooded it, he gets loads of these with TVRs. He cranks the engine and it fires up immediately.
Really relieved it wasn't anything serious (had been suffering from real Speed 6 paranoia - images of engine out and back to Blackpool had been going through my mind), just can't get over that starter motor though - it must be a beast of of motor!
Been there. Had this a few times when the car was new, if it is cold and it doesn't catch first time, or if I stalled it within say a minute of it starting then there was no way to restart. Just had to leave it for 5 mins or so then it would fire up no problem. I found a good fix was to increase the hot idle speed to about 950rpm, then it will idle OK when cold.
The theory was that I created the problem at the weekend - I pushed the car out of the garage to wash it, but started the engine it to put it away, so only ran for it for seconds or so.
I did retry starting it 20 mins after the initial attempts, but it still didn't fire - obviously needed leaving for longer. Or is there a recommened technique for starting a flooded speed 6?
I did retry starting it 20 mins after the initial attempts, but it still didn't fire - obviously needed leaving for longer. Or is there a recommened technique for starting a flooded speed 6?
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