Hi Everyone,
I've got a strange issue going on with my 95 continental. Several weeks ago it would not start. The starter sounded fine, the engine turned fine, but it was like no spark or no fuel because it never actually tried or sounded like it would start.
The car was in a resturant parking lot, and I returned to it several times for two days, but it failed each time. Finally one time it started, and ran great! No previous problems, no issues after... no computer codes were generated.
Since then it does the same thing sparatically, no predictability to it at all. Car hot or cold, just used or not touched for a day. It can run great for a week or so, then suddenly it will not start again. Each time I let it sit, and try again when I get a chance and eventually it does start, might be 10 minutes later, 4 hours later, or days... This weekend, it failed again, then started 8 hours later (my third return trip to the car), drove home fine, turned it off and it would not start again.
Next morning it started fine, and has run fine ever since... many starts and stops since the last failure. Obviously it not trust worthy anymore, but in our house one car is not enough, so we have to keep using it, and just deal with it's failures when they occur.
When we checked the computer for any clue and did not fine one, we also check over the rest of the car in general, definatelty getting spark and fuel, but at this test, the car was fine, started 20 times during our testing. Runs better then ever! Even seems the MPG is better recently! Odd huh?
We have had an 11 day run around here of over 100 degree days, not sure if that plays a role... and help anyone can give would be appreciated!! Thanks.
I've got a strange issue going on with my 95 continental. Several weeks ago it would not start. The starter sounded fine, the engine turned fine, but it was like no spark or no fuel because it never actually tried or sounded like it would start.
The car was in a resturant parking lot, and I returned to it several times for two days, but it failed each time. Finally one time it started, and ran great! No previous problems, no issues after... no computer codes were generated.
Since then it does the same thing sparatically, no predictability to it at all. Car hot or cold, just used or not touched for a day. It can run great for a week or so, then suddenly it will not start again. Each time I let it sit, and try again when I get a chance and eventually it does start, might be 10 minutes later, 4 hours later, or days... This weekend, it failed again, then started 8 hours later (my third return trip to the car), drove home fine, turned it off and it would not start again.
Next morning it started fine, and has run fine ever since... many starts and stops since the last failure. Obviously it not trust worthy anymore, but in our house one car is not enough, so we have to keep using it, and just deal with it's failures when they occur.
When we checked the computer for any clue and did not fine one, we also check over the rest of the car in general, definatelty getting spark and fuel, but at this test, the car was fine, started 20 times during our testing. Runs better then ever! Even seems the MPG is better recently! Odd huh?
We have had an 11 day run around here of over 100 degree days, not sure if that plays a role... and help anyone can give would be appreciated!! Thanks.
