Yaris sedan sputters after a cold start!! CT Scott pls help if you're out there!!!!

[tyrone_yaris]

This morning I started the car and it started fine........strange. I did not wait 20 secs or pump the gas pedal. Although I switched it to acc and waited a few secs. Will check again this evening after work when the car will have been parked for about 8 hours and see.

Was there something choking the fuel filter that passed through or something?????

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by tyrone_yaris

This morning I started the car and it started fine........strange. I did not wait 20 secs or pump the gas pedal. Although I switched it to acc and waited a few secs. Will check again this evening after work when the car will have been parked for about 8 hours and see.

Was there something choking the fuel filter that passed through or something?????

It is possible that whatever was blocking it dissolved or got washed off by the fuel sloshing in the tank.

[tyrone_yaris]

Originally Posted by CTScott

It is possible that whatever was blocking it dissolved or got washed off by the fuel sloshing in the tank.

Hmmm...can I use a fuel system cleaner? The ones they put into the fuel tank like Liquimoly or will they be harmful in the long run?

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by tyrone_yaris

Hmmm...can I use a fuel system cleaner? The ones they put into the fuel tank like Liquimoly or will they be harmful in the long run?

A fuel system cleaner won't hurt, but likely also won't help much. If there is stuff in the tank that was plugging the filter, but eventually washed off, i may still be sitting in there and may repeat the plugging. It may not be a bad idea to eventually drop the tank and clean it and the filter. I just pulled the tank out of one of my Yaris this week, so I could do some welding above it, and it really is not that much work to do.

[tyrone_yaris]

Originally Posted by CTScott

A fuel system cleaner won't hurt, but likely also won't help much. If there is stuff in the tank that was plugging the filter, but eventually washed off, i may still be sitting in there and may repeat the plugging. It may not be a bad idea to eventually drop the tank and clean it and the filter. I just pulled the tank out of one of my Yaris this week, so I could do some welding above it, and it really is not that much work to do.

Wow...thanks I can ask my mechanic to do that for me then. Can the fuel filter also be cleaned instead of replaced? I thought it had to be replaced.

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by tyrone_yaris

Wow...thanks I can ask my mechanic to do that for me then. Can the fuel filter also be cleaned instead of replaced? I thought it had to be replaced.

It ideally should be replaced. It is a mesh pad, so while I had mine out I blew it out with the air compressor.

[tyrone_yaris]

Originally Posted by CTScott

It ideally should be replaced. It is a mesh pad, so while I had mine out I blew it out with the air compressor.

Ok; thanks for your kind help. Really appreciate it.