Get your old supercharger as well and send it to me

I doubt it's the problem, since I'm not S/C'd and was having the problem. There are a couple more threads about this as well, so it's not too uncommon. Sounds like after 9 days they got desperate and blamed the supercharger. Oh well, free rental car, right?

 

Well I had other problems going on besides the starting problem so there actually might be something with the s/c, but I doubt it was. I'll ask them for the old one and have someone who knows something take a peek at it. But ya the free rental car is awesome haha, everything fun you wanted to do in a vechile but always thought it would ruin or ____ something up your free to do in a rental. This poor corolla is crying to go back to enterprise.

 

The dealership I take my car to also rents Toyotas. My service advisor always gives me rental cars, which are mostly corolla's or camry's, no matter how long my car is there. I love it.

Hope everything gets fixed for you.

 

after reading all this posts, it kinda makes me scared to go back and see my car in july, i came home for summer (in seattle WA) i go to school in detoit MI...i know it sounds stupid to have left my car IN DETROIT but school's lot with gates soo......anyways what causes this fuel pressure leaks?
just for sitting for long time? and type of gas too?
right now i have half of quater tank in my car and it will be sitting for about 2 months............what do i do? wil it even start?

 

hey xxmattxxtc, just curious, what was the outcome on this? does it still happen?

 

Yeah, its still doing it... It got better for a few weeks and then sure enough it did the same thing, I've noticed it will only do it in the mornings... but its not cold weather, so not sure whats going on, maybe humidity has some effect on it, who knows..? Has anyone found a fix or a cause of this?

 

Something to try.

Turn on the ignition like your going to start the car. Push the gas peddle all the way to the floor and let off. Then start the car.

It may be the TPS getting stuck.

 

TPS?

 

Throttle position sensor

 

everyone is getting really technical with this. here is my answer to this problem. and so far no starting problem. (cold starts after left the car over night or 12+ hours off)
knock on wood.


i began having this issue about 2 months ago, and i had just finished doing a full tune up. i had been using regular. which over here in el paso,tx is 86 octane. then my dad put super/premium which is 91 octane. all we have is 86/88/91. i went from getting about 360 miles a gallon to about 390. then the next time 415. then about 410. so i stuck with the 91 octane due to the increase in gas milage. i also thought that i got an increase in millage since my drive to work now is all highway and i put it on cruise control at about 55-60 mph.

anyway, my car had been having a hard time starting so i thought it was the spark plugs. so i bought bosh fusion platinum iridium plugs. and nope it still happened. i even changed back to the stock denso plugs.

i put several gas treatments and nope. still was happening.

i even took it to the dealer, and since i have a cold air intake, the guy said it would be $80 to diagnose the problem. he told me that the intake was causing the issue and to take it off. but they would still charge me 80 to diagnose. i said no way, and went online(here to scionlife.com).

everyone had different fixes but some still got the starting problem.

so i decided to put a few of these together.

i took off the MAF sensor ( the one on the intake) and i cleaned it with carburator cleaner.

i cleaned the throttle body, also with carburator cleaner.
since i had heard that the oil in kn filter could dirty the sensor and i thought it was causing my throttle body valve opening thing to stick.

i also cleaned the inside of the intake tube. with just water.

i also am using 88 octane, since we dont have 87 octane.

i also put in some fuel system cleaner. i forgot what brand but its in a gold bottle. about 7 dollars.

the first time i started it, it sputtered a little, but this was because of all the dirty stuff that i cleaned out in the throttle body.

now whenever i turn on my car in the morning, it turns on just fine. no more cranking and cranking and car feeling like it was choking.

i hope this helps some of you. so far its been about 2 weeks, and i havent had any issues.

worth a shot, in my opinion.

i copied this into a few of these starting problem posts.