# 1992 Jetta hard to start

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/1992-jetta-hard-to-start/19182>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** jetta, starting\
**Created:** [September 6, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1992-jetta-hard-to-start/19182 "2008-09-06T14:58:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![comersj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@comersj](https://community.cartalk.com/u/comersj)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1992-jetta-hard-to-start/19182/1 "2008-09-06T14:58:19Z")

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starts on 3rd crank, barely runs for 30-60 seconds, accelerator boggs it down with backfires, reving results in dying, after warming all symptom vanish. restarts when warm normal. next cold sart problem repeats.