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Old Nov 10, 2023 | 09:42 PM
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Default Re: '05 Xfire starting curiosity!

Originally Posted by Romad
I've had this '05 for about a year now and have had the dreaded classic "3 start tries then nothing" symptom. I could always go back later and usually start right up. Just been living with it and not driving that much cause I didn't want to get stuck somewhere. Drove to daughters house and same old no start symptom. This time and and a couple more times I just kept consecutively retrying five or six times and and it starts right up. SCREEM or possibly something else in the communication circuitry line???
(I'd rather take a beating than pull that dash apart again. At 76 and having to be a contortionist doesn't work well for me and plastic is so brittle.)
I'm sure it is NOT the SKREEM because once the SKREEM fails it is a permanent situation with the car not starting.
 
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