You really need to determine the system causing the problem. It could be either fuel or ignition. The next time it won't start see if you are getting spark. This will send you into the right trubleshooting path. No spark and it's electrical, spark means fuel system trouble. I am going to guess that since it eventually starts without changing anything that it is ignition related. How old are the ignition wires and were the plugs ever cleaned and gapped? The accumulater "fix" is only meant to diagnose a hard hot start so I wouldn't have expected it to mean anything. Does it seem worse when the humidity is high? This would point to ignition breakdown. If it starts easily after it is warmed up this also indicates ignition breakdown. Of course fuel system problems could also mimic these symptoms. When was the car last tuned up. 9 times out of 10 these symptoms finally lead an owner to do the tune-up he was putting off and replacing the usual parts "fixes" the problems. Wintertime is a great time to do the maintaince you put off during the driving season. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 [Duplicate quote deleted by moderator]