My first flood I thought this was supposed to be a big deal? I just got back from a week of vacation in Sarasota Florida, went to start my car and it just kept turning over it would kick every once in a while. It took a second for it to click in it was flooded. I pushed the gas pedal to the floor and continued to turn it over until it stopped firing, then stopped for 15seconds and tired again and 10seconds of it turning over it started to fire and kick within 25 seconds it was up and running and tons of smoke reved it up a bit took it for a drive once it was warmed up redlined it once or twice and all’s well.

 

Did you turn it off cold?...........

 

You were lucky...the body shop flooed mine and it took almost an hour to get it going. Had to pull the plugs twice..and recharge the battery in between...

 

no i was in Florida but left a friend in charge of my car who i trust with everything after speaking with him apparently he took it to work to rotate the tires and he said he brought it home parked it realized he parked it under a tree re started it reved it quick to 3000 rpm and shut it off he said he figured it would be fine since it was still warmed up from the 25km trip home.

 

How long had it been sitting after the 25KM drive? What year? AT or MT?

 

2004 mt with 50km on it and after the drive he says less than 3 min

 

Sorry to hear--I wouldn't have expected it to flood after that.

Did you have the new starter and battery recall/TSB done?

 

no idea bought it at a dealer but had such issues with them just wanted to get the hell out of there ill take it in to another dealer in the next few weeks and get them to run the vin and see whats all been done

 

Good luck! A bad sales department doesn't necessarily mean a bad service department. Just make sure you go in there armed with information.

 

I had the same problem; go to the service department with recalls and TSB's in hand. Print them out here:

http://www.finishlineperformance.com/rx8/bulletins.html