[s-cars] cold weather starting

Mark Strangways Strangconst at rogers.com
Sat Jan 8 18:51:28 EST 2005


I s'pose this can be cleared up by measuring the voltage at the battery 
curing cranking.
Me, myself spect there is another issue at bat here.

Mark S
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kent McLean" <kentmclean at mindspring.com>
To: "Jerry Scott" <jerryscott at earthlink.net>
Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] cold weather starting


> "Jerry Scott" <jerryscott at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> It starts fine until it gets down to 0 deg. F.
>
> Still sounds like a battery problem to me.  The ECU needs...
> 10V? to work.  A 10V battery may be able to spin the engine,
> but not strong enough to feed the ECU. And that 10V may be
> due to corroded connections at the batter, or the cable splice
> under the passenger floorboard (is that true for the C4 S cars;
> I know it's there on the Type 44).
>
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> Kent McLean
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