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Did the starter motor disengage once the engine fired?
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- 11-19 09:58 PM #1MikeGuest
00 Camry electrical gremlins
2000 Camry CE 2.2L 99k miles bought it Saturday from Classic Toyota
Tyler TX.
Car drove great all day Saturday (of course!). I did notice that the
cruise control would not work (see previous post on that subject).
But then other things electrical have been happening, and with each
one I'm thinking "Oh oh this can't be good".
1. Dome light has come on a couple of times while driving for no
apparent reason.
2. The "door open" indicator light has remained on once, even though
all doors were closed and re-closed.
3. Driving along listening to radio, hit a bump and the radio stops
and the cd starts playing (twice), and once it simply ejected the cd
out.
4. But the strangest "this can't be good" moment was last night.
Started up and was backing out of the driveway...son reached to turn
on the radio...car died...as son was changing stations, I was reaching
for the ignition key...starter engages the engine (on it's own!)and
starts the engine back up! All of this happened quickly, maybe over
2-3 seconds...and I was just stunned thinking "what the hell just
happened?"
5. Add the cruise control problem to the list.
I think it's fair to say that I've got some electrical gremlins in
there somewhere. Is there a common component (such as a fuse box or
the black-box computer)that all of this is wired through where the
shorts may be happening?
- 11-20 05:50 PM #2JasonGuest
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- 11-20 09:18 PM #3DanielGuest
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com (Mike Mason) wrote in message news:<google.com>...
other things electrical have been happening, and with each
Is it possible this car had prior flood (water) damage?
- 11-21 12:00 AM #4MikeGuest
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>"Jason James"
Yes!! I'm telling ya, it cranked and disengaged on it's own! Right
out of the Twilight Zone!
- 11-21 03:45 AM #5Philip®Guest
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In news:google.com,
Mike Mason <com> being of bellicose mind posted:
Quite a few GMs and Mercedes (probably more) have a this "feature."
Let go of the START position too soon.... the ECM will keep cranking
for up to 10 seconds to start the engine. Reasoning is heat soak
with oxygenated fuels would make a hot engine harder to start. Also,
when the engine became cold, a hard start condition would occur due
to air developing at the injectors during cool down. On the other
end, the same system prevents you from keeping the starter engaged
after the ECM senses the engine is turning faster than the starter
can turn it.
--
~~Philip "Never let school interfere
with your education - Mark Twain"
- 11-21 02:18 PM #6MikeGuest
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> Is it possible this car had prior flood (water) damage?
How do find that out?
- 11-21 05:08 PM #7DerekGuest
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Any very bright lights or flying objects nearby when this happened?
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- 11-21 06:01 PM #8JasonGuest
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Phil has answered the starter oddity. The radio-player malfuctions sound
like a faulty connection in the 12v to the unit which makes and breaks as
the car vibrates. One courtesy light switch may be loose causing an earth
from the body to get onto it. Just open each door and manually operate each
switch, paying attention for intermittant operation of the kind you
experienced.
Jason
- 11-21 09:50 PM #9MikeGuest
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> ...a real Twilight Zone moment.
You mean besides I think I saw Michael Jackson crouched on top of the
car crossing wires and making sparks fly?...no nothing out the
ordinary.
- 11-25 01:48 AM #10WilliamGuest
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Try www.carfax.com . I seem to remember their report indicates whether a
car (i.e., a VIN) has had a major water damage insurance claim.
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