ARRGGHH!!! Engine won't turn over!!!!, Just dropped dead.. any idea?? Options

[pflau]

Hi. My 98 Celica GT is stressing me out. It won't turn over . I keep cranking and I would EVENTUALLY hear some VERY rough combustions but the engine just won't turn over. The strange thing is that the engine had always turned over instantly, and it turned over just fine two weeks ago. Last week I couldn't start the car, and left it at that because I didn't have time to deal with it. Now I still can't start the car.

I guess my question is: what could've changed in the space of ONE WEEK ? And the car went from starting just fine to no starting??? Any experience with similiar starting problems??? The care was always garaged so it's not like somebody messed up my car intentionally!?!?

Thanks in advance!!

phil

[97GTinKC]

My 97GT did the exact same thing last fall, had about 2000 miles on new Bosch wires and Platinum+4 plugs, started it to move it, ran fine, went to move it back 2 hours later, and no start, smoked, smelled fuel. ended up having it towed to the dealer since they had just replaced the computer a few weeks before. they blamed it on the aftermarket wires and plugs, they looked just like yours, black and wet. Said there was too much resistance in the wires,,,I did check the wires when i got home with it and the bosch coil wire has about 11,000 ohms, they say that is way too much,,,whatever, its back to stock wires and plugs, runs great!
I still wonder how it fouled the plugs that bad, I also ran across an article about toyota coil problems while I was looking in to this,,,never did reach any conclusions on that...