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Subject:Re: Poor Hot Start Discovery - midway through solution
From:David Beierl
Date:Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:00:13 -0400

At 08:47 AM 8/26/2012, Jeff Palmer wrote:
>Would a bad temp ii sensor also result in decreased gas mileage?

I'm sure it could.  If it's completely open it makes things so rich
the engine has trouble running.  At some much lower threshold it will
put the ECU in open-loop cold-enrichment mode as in normal starting.

Yrs,
d