See Below. -----Original Message----- From: Swoyerzone@xxxx [mailto:Swoyerzone@xxxx] Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 3:13 PM To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [DML] cold or hot starting? I just got my DMC back from the shop had over 1,000 dollars done since its been running. Well, to make a short story very short, I live about 15min from my mechanic's shop. I picked up the car it runs on a really low idle needs a new computer, ( Idle can be adjusted, what makes you think it needs a new computer.) and the idle motor is sticking.( Yes, This can happen. ) It starts ok, and drives fine. I went to my friends house and parked the can the temp gage was around 220. The car sat for about 30-40mins. I then went to Red Lobster with my friends which is about a 20min drive, the car reached just under 220 since it was mainly highway. ( 220 is to high, your reaching the point of damage to the engine.This needs to be addressed now.) We went in to eat at 8:15, and came out at about 10:10, I went to start the car and nothing. it would just about start then kick out. After a half hour of trying to start the car it finally came back, and the rest of the night I had no problems. ( Cars get hotter after shutting off the engine and then in a little while they start cooling down. You could have a pluse coil or Ignition coil going out.} The car has a new Fuel pump, accumulator, thermostat, time switch, baffle, hoses, water pump, basically almost restored, plus more parts does anyone know what may have caused this? See above. I drove it to day to work and it ran fine, no problems. John Hervey www.specialtauto.com Darryl 5898 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/