Will not cold start
 

So i went to start my car monday morning. Didnt even want to turn over battery was so dead. So it sat for a few days then wednesday i put a different battery in and it just turns and turns over and will not start. Never had any issues with this car until now. Any ideas. I tried mostly everything i read online that it could be. Battery is mostly dead so i need to jump it to make the car turn over. Could it just be a bad battery thats making it not start ? Imput would be cool considering i need a car to get to work. Thanks guys

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Battery most definitely. I've known a guy that sold off his car because he couldn't get it to run just because the battery didn't have enough juice and he was lazy. He paid $600 for a complete and mint 2ga TSi AWD. Just had some idiot owner who took the hood, fenders and bumper off then let it sit.

Don't over think it!

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Ha ha been to lazy myself.. Will pick up a new battery tomarrow and hope it fixes the issue

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I would look at your coolant temp sensor.

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I am currently looking into that also thanks

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Bought a new battery. Cranked and cranked finally started rough. Ran fine after about a 20 minute warm up drove it to get gas and threw a check engine light. Started back up when it was warm but sat over night and didnt start in the morning . looked at it today coolant temp switch wires are out of the plug. Would that make a non start issue. Any other reasons why it wouldnt start. Domt have a laptop to plug into to check the code

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coolant temp sensor will make hard no start problems

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Definitely get the coolant temp sensor hooked up, that will cause problems.

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Its the switch not the sensor tho. The guy who had the car before messed up the harness bad. Idiot

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Mark had the same problem this week with his 95 and I told him to get a new temp sensor and it fixed the problem. His was reading 316 on link.

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Hey, the new battery didn't hurt! Lol

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It did not at all.
this is in a 97 6 bolt. Just thought that would be helpfull.
And does anyone have a 1g temp sensor pigtail laying around??

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You need a 2g sensor since the car is a 2g. Does not matter that there's a 6bolt in it.

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Okay then any temp sensor pigtail...
Heres a pic to make sure im explaining this enough.

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So th plug that plugs into the black connector right ontop of the water neck has the two wires out of it somehow.
But that is the temp sensor correct ?!?!?

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that would the one.

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Perfect now just need a pigtail and thank you.

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I have a good pigtail

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I had the same issue with my colt, the sensor was fine, the wire just had a dead spot, I bypassed it with those blue splice clips and ran a new lead and she started right up.