BlackMetal
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I put the question mark because I don't know for a fact if that's what happens, I've never had a car backfire on me before so I don't know what it would sound like.
Sometimes when I try to start my GN (87, 32k miles, stock at the moment), I basically get "crankcrankPOOF", and the thing that bothers me the most about it is that the boost guage completely pegs out when the noise occurs and then goes right back to zero. I don't know what would happen after that if I kept cranking, because I always turn the key off immediately when it occurs. Then I'll sit there for a few seconds, put the key back, and it starts up perfectly.
It doesn't sound like a loud bang or anything, but like I tried to describe it above, it's a fairly loud, but muffled POOF, muffled in the sense that I guess I'm hearing something under the hood in the engine compartment.
It doesn't really happen in any specific situation. At first it seemed like it was only when I left it in the garage over the weekend and went to start it on Monday, but since then I've had it happen after sitting for two days, one day, a few hours, just about any time frame, and no correlation to weather or temperature either.
Is this a common problem or something serious? I didn't search the forums because I figure looking up "backfire" could lead to 300 different problems.
Thanks for any help, I hope it's not too bad. :frown:
I'd take a video of it if I could, but of course every time I take my camera, it doesn't happen.
Sometimes when I try to start my GN (87, 32k miles, stock at the moment), I basically get "crankcrankPOOF", and the thing that bothers me the most about it is that the boost guage completely pegs out when the noise occurs and then goes right back to zero. I don't know what would happen after that if I kept cranking, because I always turn the key off immediately when it occurs. Then I'll sit there for a few seconds, put the key back, and it starts up perfectly.
It doesn't sound like a loud bang or anything, but like I tried to describe it above, it's a fairly loud, but muffled POOF, muffled in the sense that I guess I'm hearing something under the hood in the engine compartment.
It doesn't really happen in any specific situation. At first it seemed like it was only when I left it in the garage over the weekend and went to start it on Monday, but since then I've had it happen after sitting for two days, one day, a few hours, just about any time frame, and no correlation to weather or temperature either.
Is this a common problem or something serious? I didn't search the forums because I figure looking up "backfire" could lead to 300 different problems.
Thanks for any help, I hope it's not too bad. :frown:
I'd take a video of it if I could, but of course every time I take my camera, it doesn't happen.