Everytime I am about to start my car I need to pump the gas pedal and continue until the car starts
Pumping the gas pedal on a fuel injected engine during starting does nothing. If the gas pedal is held to the floor during starting, this tells the computer to go into the flooded mode. The computer then reduces the injector signal in half in an attempt to clear the flooded condition.
So explain what exactly happens when you go to start the engine. Such as cranking time and how the engine runs once it starts.
Tester
I’m wondering if the that time in which you’re pumping the pedal is actually allowing the fuel system to repressurize the line. As Tester already clarified, it isn’t squirting gas into the intake like in the old days of carburators and accelerator pumps.
Tomorrow morning, try putting the key in the “on” position without putting it in the “start” position for a few seconds, Do this a few times. If the car starts right up, thats a good sign that yor fuel system is depressurizing when the cars sits.
By the way, have you tuned it up recently? Have you had the battery checked recently?