Cold start, then engine dies
- Symptoms
- Starts in the morning but about 50 seconds later rpm drops and the engine stops
- Likely cause
- Suggested in the thread: coolant temperature sensor, or valve clearance / low compression
- Fix
- Check the coolant temperature reading with a scanner. Check valve clearance and do a cold compression test
- Applies to
- SCP10 1SZ-FE
- Confidence
- low (owner thread, not solved)
Sources
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