Starting the engine

Starting the engine

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yellowcerbie

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271 months

Monday 7th October 2002
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Once the 4.5 is fired up from cold, is it normal for the engine to stall as the car is idling (ie before it moves off)?

It happens to me somedays.

Over the last 2 days, what has started happening is that it stalls, I hear the dolcit tones (ones that come on after you press the alarm fob to signal that you can press the black button to fire up the engine), I press the black button - but instead of firing up the engine, it makes a peculiar noise (the anology that I would use is that someone driving a car turns on the ignition with his key, engine fires up, he turns the key again whilst the engine is running to crank the engine even more).

Q: Does anyone know why this is happening? The only thing I have been able to do is to press the red button when it stalls, and then start all over again.

Comments appreciated.