i need help figuring out why this car will start run a few seconds and die

Asked by Micheal Sep 03, 2013 at 12:01 PM about the 2002 Hyundai Sonata FWD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

car will start and run a few seconds then it will die , its like the car will just lose fire

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migration_judge_roy answered 10 years ago

it does, because the main source of this information (knowing where the crank is, for example) is muddied with foul ground~ the ECU is unhappy with varying amperages and varying voltages~

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