# Car requires extra cranking after overheating incident **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** civic, honda\ **Created:** [August 16, 2020, 5:17am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-requires-extra-cranking-after-overheating-incident/168757 "2020-08-16T05:17:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![STRMfrmXMN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@STRMfrmXMN](https://community.cartalk.com/u/STRMfrmXMN)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 4:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-requires-extra-cranking-after-overheating-incident/168757/12 "2020-08-17T04:37:02Z")
This is only the second week it’s been regularly driven as it sat in quarantine for several months. Possible the gas went bad from barely driven and it’s only just now being cycled. Hard to say. I will say that the car has been fine since it got new gas and that’s all I know for sure. I’ve done some digging and I found this thread interesting. > [@Hard starting when gas tank low](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hard-starting-when-gas-tank-low/66554): > > I want to confirm what the lady with the Honda Civic was saying. I have 1998 Civic that I’ve been driving for about 7 years, from 120K to 255K miles. I usually let the fuel tank run down low before refilling, at 1/8 of a tank, if the car sits for a more than a few hours, it has to crank over a while to start, like 6-7 seconds. If it has \>1/4 tank, either morning or after work it starts no problem, with only 1-2 seconds of cranking. So it seems to be some kind of pressure bleed out of a one-wa… Guess I’ll find out tomorrow when I start my car on a hill (my driveway is very steep, as is most of SW Portland). My work parking lot is totally flat, so this might be why I had no starting issues there, but I did have a full tank. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-requires-extra-cranking-after-overheating-incident/168757)._