mookieit
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My 2015 V6 has 120K miles and for the past few months consistently the car is taking about 2 seconds cranking to start, rather than less than a second.
My experience with this is:
- On mornings ,The car starts immediately, while cranking under a second. That feels normal.
- After a 20-30 minute drive to work, I park the car at 9 a.m. and when I leave at 5:30 p.m. I notice the car cranks for about 2 seconds to start. This just started recently, maybe a few months.
- When I leave work, I am planning to not crank the car immediately, but just start it, hear the fuel pump and then start cranking . I did that once and the car started immediately. I want to do this a few more times, but I keep forgetting.
- Sometimes, like just now, I drove for 30 minutes and parked at 6 p.m. and left at 10 p.m. and it had the long crank again.
- First time I noticed this, it happened like a year ago once, was concerned and asked around, but had no conclusive answer.
- A few weeks ago, I experienced bad misfires and the problem was resolved by changing all spark plugs, coils and injectors with OEM. My cranking problem was happening even before this.
- I am in Tampa. Mentioning this because it has been kind of hot lately and I am wondering if the heat is making the cranking problem worse. I don’t think during colder weather I have this cranking issue so frequent.
I am suspecting something may be wrong with fuel pump.
Please share your experience or advice.
My experience with this is:
- On mornings ,The car starts immediately, while cranking under a second. That feels normal.
- After a 20-30 minute drive to work, I park the car at 9 a.m. and when I leave at 5:30 p.m. I notice the car cranks for about 2 seconds to start. This just started recently, maybe a few months.
- When I leave work, I am planning to not crank the car immediately, but just start it, hear the fuel pump and then start cranking . I did that once and the car started immediately. I want to do this a few more times, but I keep forgetting.
- Sometimes, like just now, I drove for 30 minutes and parked at 6 p.m. and left at 10 p.m. and it had the long crank again.
- First time I noticed this, it happened like a year ago once, was concerned and asked around, but had no conclusive answer.
- A few weeks ago, I experienced bad misfires and the problem was resolved by changing all spark plugs, coils and injectors with OEM. My cranking problem was happening even before this.
- I am in Tampa. Mentioning this because it has been kind of hot lately and I am wondering if the heat is making the cranking problem worse. I don’t think during colder weather I have this cranking issue so frequent.
I am suspecting something may be wrong with fuel pump.
Please share your experience or advice.
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