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Old May 10th, 2006, 01:17 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by snek
Speaking of MINIs: My car has never had the cold start problem. But now it takes two or three tries. I think it has to do with ethanol in the gas. Anybody else has the same problem?

Absolutely, mine started doing it again last week. It takes about 3x as many cranks to get it started. I had been attributing it to the fact that I haven't had an oil change since March of 05!!! And my computer still says I have 2500 miles left.
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