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Old 2006-02-05, 10:33 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Joeyy
I'm not a mechanic but it has been really cold in Truckee. Guess it's cold in Reno also. If you don't have much gas in your tank, I'm thinking it could be a fuel problem with frozen lines or just plain old water in the lines. If you let your tank get much below 1/2 up here and your baby is outside over night, you can get condensation and freeze a fuel line. Anyway, I hope your problem is as simple as that and not terminal.
Do the temperatures in Truckee also indicate how cold it is in Atlanta? 'Cause that's where JC and his legacy are.

JC, I'd agree with Austin that is sounds like a TPS issue, since it's so sensitive to touching the gas pedal. If the TPS is out of spec, the car could be thinking you're stomping the gas when you just tap it, and it's dumping too much fuel. However, when the car's cold, it has to run rediculously rich just to stay stoich... so I don't know why extra fuel would kill the motor like that.
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