2000 LS V8. 148k miles.
The car had been sitting outside on the street for three days. The weather was cool (mid-40's at night, 60 during the day) and damp the whole time. I went to start the car, and it fired up as normal, but abruptly died after only 2 or 3 seconds. I tried to start it up again, and the starter only made a whirring sound. There was not the normal starter sound and the car did not vibrate or shake at all.
About 5 days later it was towed to the shop. They tried to start it, and said it sounded like there was no compression. After another day of sitting, they were able to start the car. They said that it acted like it had been flooded, and it gave out a big cloud of white smoke. But once that happened, it drove and started several times just fine. They scanned the car and came up with some PATS codes (didn't get the details - sorry), which they cleared and checked again after a few small test drives and came up with nothing. I picked it up a couple of days later. They had been driving the car short distances over those two days. It started just like normal and drove fine.
I initially thought it was the starter. I had a suspicion since the car seems to crank an extra time before it starts than it used to. That started in March at the same time I moved the car out of the garage, onto the driveway.
Any ideas?
The car had been sitting outside on the street for three days. The weather was cool (mid-40's at night, 60 during the day) and damp the whole time. I went to start the car, and it fired up as normal, but abruptly died after only 2 or 3 seconds. I tried to start it up again, and the starter only made a whirring sound. There was not the normal starter sound and the car did not vibrate or shake at all.
About 5 days later it was towed to the shop. They tried to start it, and said it sounded like there was no compression. After another day of sitting, they were able to start the car. They said that it acted like it had been flooded, and it gave out a big cloud of white smoke. But once that happened, it drove and started several times just fine. They scanned the car and came up with some PATS codes (didn't get the details - sorry), which they cleared and checked again after a few small test drives and came up with nothing. I picked it up a couple of days later. They had been driving the car short distances over those two days. It started just like normal and drove fine.
I initially thought it was the starter. I had a suspicion since the car seems to crank an extra time before it starts than it used to. That started in March at the same time I moved the car out of the garage, onto the driveway.
Any ideas?