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100% battery. Get a LiFePo battery and the starter will spin like nothing you've ever heard while the engine comes to life like an enraged animal. I love mine!
Agreed. I didn't get the battery above, just a new basic one. Cars starts up better than ever & idk if its a placebo effect but my car also seems to shift better in manual mode as well after the change.
I have a noticeable hesitation on startup. It happens mostly on cold starts, but sometimes on warm starts too. Not all cold starts have the hesitation -- I made a video where the first 3 are cold starts w/hesitation, (they all sound slightly different) the next is a cold start w/o hesitation, and the last is a warm start.
Otherwise, I don't have hesitation while driving, and it idles smoothly. I've only had the car for about a month and as far as I remember it hasn't changed since I've had it. The only changes I've made are a new battery and a PTS Joe Z exhaust of which neither has affected it. Any ideas? I'm willing to try an injector cleaner, but I have doubts to their effectiveness.
I'm having the same problem. But when the car starts, I get electrically related error messages (like Parking Assist Unavailable) flashing on the dash for 10-20 seconds. Then they clear up. So it seems like some kind of electrical issue to me. But I'm interested in whether anyone else has figured this out.