It is kind of hard to explain but here it goes. Every time I start the car after it gets cold, it seems like it doesn't have enough power to start. The battery is new and I cleaned the IACV this summer. It doesn't act like it doesn't have enough juice like when a battery is dead. It still starts but it is a little slow. It still cranks but when it cuts on it seems like the RPM's are very low. I really can't describe it any better than that. The car runs great all of the time. This is just the one thing I noticed lately. She has 170K on it. New spark plugs, wires, clean IACV, new battery. Has anyone ever encountered this before? Any thoughts?

 

so you are saying it happens only on cold starts.....or on hot starts...

 

cold starts

 

may be the starter ... i just got mine change at 250k km

 

Sounds like the starter ... specifically starter soleniod contacts contained in the starter. It's about the right milage for one to fail, too.

 

that is the same thing I suspected but I wasn't sure how to troubleshoot it.