This morning I go to start the car but it dies. Basically it starts then it dies, won't even respond to when I give it some throttle.. I have half a tank of gas and it drove fine on friday night. I did not drive it all weekend until this morning. Do I have a bad fuel pump? Thanks in advance for all the help.

2003 350Z

 

Anyone?

 

MAF? that would be my guess.. plug in a OBDII scanner, see if you got codes..

 

I will head to autozone and see if I can rent one since the car will not move. I did not see a check engine light.

 

If the car starts then dies you may want to look into the idle learn>>was anything added to the car lately?

 

this was my issue, what you are describing sounds like how mine started out in a way.

https://my350z.com/forum/southern-ca...ions-help.html

yours still starts tho right? any bogging? just get the ecu scanner, thats the best bet

 

Nothing added, all stock. I will get a scanning tool and see if the ecu is giving me any codes.

The car does not even start, it just bogs like it wants to start but doesn't. It almost does but it won't and then starts to smell like gas.

 

WOW.... STOP TRYING TO START THE CAR! hahahaa man you might blow urself up... you might have a fuel leak in the engine bay or something. smelling gas IS NOT NORMAL. the ecu MIGHT NOT even help you in this case (if the reason is fuel leak)... just cause there is NOT fuel on the floor under the car do NOT rule this option out. if the scanner cant rule it out then just tow it somewhere and once again DO NOT TRY AND START YOUR CAR AGAIN unless ... scratch that, no unless, lolz just dont try and start it again till its fixed.

 

p.s
places like auto zone and pep boys NO LONGER rent out the scanners. GL bro

 

Went ahead and bought the scanner tool. It gave me codes P1121 and P0113, I will search to see the cure for these.

No worries not starting the car anymore, I do not want to burn my 2nd wife and not its not the Z, lol.

P1121 Electronic Throttle Control Actuator
P0113 IAT Sensor

So it seems it has something to do with my throttle body. Do I need to clean it or a new one?
What about the IAT?

 

clean throttle body, check the connectors, and see if it gets a signal from it. May need a new throttle body. Best way to check is to take one off another Z and see if it works then.

best of luck.

 

Thanks Scope, will try that route and go from there. Will keep you guys posted.

 

sounds good. Also check out 350ztech.com when it comes to error codes. They have one of the best data bases for everything. Walk throughs and all.

 

damn scope, you know all the paths lolz... thank god i got you helping on my ride lolz

 

Sounds like the TB sensor is bad not the body itself.

 

lol you have no idea my friend. After my car was down for 5 months due to bad grounding and i was trying everything to fix it. I literally spent months on the forums and reading everything possible and trying everything.

It sucked at the time, but i did learn a lot so it does help and pay off now.

 

COOL... so the TB is GOOD?!?! ......BUT....the sensor cant be purchased separate. gotta get the whole TB. lolz thats the down side

been there done that with thinking my TB was bad and that wasn't even the issue. is was a damn relay lolz

 

Well it could just be the sensor. Sorry I couldn't make it tonight. Something came up for school and I needed to go. But I can take the throttle body out, clean it and see was comes up. The fuel smell is prob just do to the motor being flooding by repeatedly trying to start it and it not burning just building.

 

any chance you changed keys ?
- i spent a day chasing an engine turning over / not starting issue and it turned out i unintentionally grabbed an old set of keys that had become unrecoginizable by the computer - started first time with the normal key - v. annoying!

 

I will clean up the throttle body first, if that does not work I will go ahead and purchase a new one. Hopefully that will fix the issue. I did not change keys, we only have one key, lol.

Myfirst06350Z, no worries, let me know what your schedule is like tomorrow. I will be home around 9pm, I have my last class tomorrow.