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

[NEVERSTOP]

if you gonna get plugs go with iridium - period.

Also it sounds like you might have a fuel filter problem. does the car want to turn over but just kinda chokes when you try to give it gas? if your car sits alot and only comes out on the weekends then you have gas that is sitting all week long chemically breaking up and puttin all kinda of deposits on the bottom of your gas tank which then gets pulled through the fuel filter and into you engine - that would explain why your spark plugs look the way they do. I would SERIOUSLY recomned having a mechanic change the fule filter on it as you can really mess your car up if you try and do it urself with out knoledge of how it works, not to metion the gas burns...