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Old 08-06-2007, 03:13 PM
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Re: starting issue 2001 sportage

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Originally Posted by EMTSUJ
Hi,

I own a 2001 Sportage and in the last couple of days it has had some starting/acceleration issues. It began with just starting a little harder than usual. Now it sputters when I first try to accelerate. This morning it started hard, spuutered, and then stalled, but started up again. When put into drive, it's sputtered and shook a bit, for about a block and then was ok. There is also a rattling sound that comes from underneath my car from time to time. Does anyone know what might be wrong? I appreciate any info, thanks on advance.
Possible that it could be several things. I would check timing and also the fuel psi regulators leak causing difficult starting.

We have had a quite a few Sportages come to us with the timing off at low mileage. Seems the belt stretches and jumps time.
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