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Originally Posted by CRAIG

Your coolant temp sensor is most likely bad. Change that and it should be just fine. If your coolant temp sensor is bad, it will not tell the ECU to use a cold weather enrichent fuel map. And if I remember right, if the sensor is bad the ECU will think the outside temp is like 600 degrees F or somethink like that. If you can get your car to start, most likely it will run like shit for about 40 seconds then it will bypass that fuel map and go into a alternate 'default' map. Once this happens you will see a CEL and it will run decent but not great. And when the car is warm it will start back up great, but as soon as it gets down to outside temp again it will do the same thing.

Try that out, if its the culprit as soon as you replace it the car will fire up like a charm.

CRAIG

WOW...thanks Craig! I didn't realize that the cold start was so dependant on the temp sensor! That takes it a step farther than a frozen line. Defenitely good to know if I have a similar issue.