# Cold Starting problems with 98 Honda CRV

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/cold-starting-problems-with-98-honda-crv/41694>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** cr-v, start, honda\
**Created:** [January 2, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cold-starting-problems-with-98-honda-crv/41694 "2010-01-02T18:16:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![kootter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@kootter](https://community.cartalk.com/u/kootter)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cold-starting-problems-with-98-honda-crv/41694/1 "2010-01-02T18:16:30Z")

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I have a 98 Honda CRV with 145K miles. NOw that is cold here is WI I ma having trouble starting my car. Here are the symptoms. When I try and start the car the idle will vary for about 30 secs, many times as it goes to a lower rpm it will stall. IF i give it a little throttle to raise the rpm’s for a few secs then it will be OK. During the warm weather it starts fine. I am thinking that the intake air temp sensor might be bad at lower temps.