Hello all I own a 2000 kia sportage 2.0 gas/auto 4 door with a tad over 100,000 miles. In the past few months the car has become intermitently very hard to start . Some days go out crank it over and vroom starts right up. Other days you have to mash the gas pedal to the floor and my wife ( primary driver of the vehicle) has spent without exageration 15 mins of cranking to get it to start. ( No not all at once I have her trained on crank/pause/crank/pause to prevent starter burnout). there is nothing wrong with the starter it will crank it all day long or til it runs out of juice. I have noticed a bad shaking of the engine when it won't start also. rocks on the mounts like a mechanical bull in a western bar. It will however ( cross fingers) always start eventually at least as to this date. As well it will intermitently just 'die" at low idles ( consequently anyone know the correct idle speed for this car in Park and Nuetral?) I have adjusted the idle speed up but it still stalls. I have replaced the battery as the old one lost a cell when this began occuring. The check engine light has never come on though I'm begining to believe the dealer we bought it from may have disconnected it. It was on when I bought the vehicle I brought it in and had it serviced and no more check engine light however I have never seen it come on including when you put the key in the ignition and the other "idiot" lights illuminate. The air filter has been changed, sparks are good and normal driving is fine...never stalls except at idle ( waiting at red lights, parking lots etc. As well does this in both drive and park) I don't own a OBD II scanner ( YET!) so nothing I can do there on my own. Any input is greatly apreciated.
Neal Wells
Neal Wells