[s-cars] Troubleshooting help

Russ Panneton russ at s-cars.org
Wed Jul 17 21:02:56 EDT 2002


If the gas in the fuel tank is many months old winter gas, it may not have
enough light aromatics left to ignite from a spark!

Russ

>Help!
>
>I have a 1993 S4, and it has been sitting, unstarted,
>in the driveway for several months. In March, it
>started and ran with no problems (once I recharged the
>battery) - but when I went back to start it last week,
>it just turns over and over without ignition.
>
>Any thoughts on where to start? I would have expected
>to smell fuel after cranking it for a while, but I do
>not - and this is leading me to suspect the fuel pump
>or relay. Where is the relay located? It doesn't seem
>to be either in the box under the hood or in the
>passenger's footwell.
>

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Russ Panneton                          russ at s-cars.org
Nederland, CO              "Too bad ignorance isn't painful"



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