Car randomly doesn't start on slight hill
 

I park my car on a driveway with a pretty slight incline. I park with the car facing the bottom of the hill, so obviously the gas in the tank will shift towards the front of the car. This has occurred twice now, both times with the gas below half but above a quarter tank. I've only ran the tank real low a few times usually to burn off gas which had ethanol in it, but thats besides the point.

When I have the problem, the car would attempt to turn over then rattle a bit. By the time the rattle occurs I stop turning the key, give it a second and try again. The second time, the car will stutter than turn over and drive without a problem.

I spend a lot of time parked on inclines, and it has only happened twice as I said, but considering how often I park in this way, I'm leery of excusing it especially considering the car's got ~2k miles on it now. I don't think this should ever be occurring, I could run my eclipse down to empty and park on an incline without any problems. Above a quarter of a tank is unacceptable in my opinion.

Anyone else have this problem? I tried the search but had no luck..:mad0259:

Hmm yeah, that doesn't sound good. I often have my Eclipse near empty and parked on an incline without problems as well. I hope this doesn't become an issue with the FR-S... Of course, I could just make sure I always have more fuel in the tank. LOL

Its so infrequent and unpredictable I can't decide if its a problem or just some strange occurrence due to shitty gas..

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Well try using some nicer Shell V-Power for a while. But it could be something else like the starter motor or fuel injectors or spark plugs having a problem.

**Could** be related to the CEL issue. My car threw a CEL for "Starting Malfunction", which was related to the whole Camshaft issue thing.

sorry to bring up an old post. since buying my BRZ in June, i have only had two instances where my car took longer to turn over than normal, both happened when parked on an incline (once with the motor facing the top of the incline, once with the motor facing the bottom).

Has it been cold out? My car has taken several attempts to get it started after sitting in freezing weather.

the incline could only be a coincidence ... sometimes my BRZ has issues starting, it will turn over 5-9 times before starting,... this has happened ~4 times in as many months... no incline...