joewmarino

I've searched around and found bits and pieces of this issue but not exactly what I have. If I have missed something and someone has a link I apologize ahead and please post it here. I have been driving the car all summer, with no issues at all. Have had it in the garage for a little over a week because the weather was horrendous. Went to take it out the other morning and it will not start. The engine cranks, sounds like the fuel pump is working and i can definitely smell gas if i keep turning it, but it never catches at all. Battery is only a couple of years old and seems to be cranking strongly, but i threw it on the charger just to be sure and still no change. The other odd thing i noticed was that ALL (every single warning light) of the warning lights come on when i turn the key, and they stay on. I tried another key thinking it might be a bad key fob and same thing. I wouldn't mind having a shop look at it but i can't even get the thing out of my garage so I am at the DIY phase, which is fine, but I have no idea where to even start with this. As my brother loves to constantly remind me "i don't have a computer in my 914, just a distributor, some plugs and a fuel pump"...yeah yeah yeah. ****update**** So after reading my own post and beating my head on a wall repeatedly, I realized I had not locked or unlocked the car in several weeks. On a hunch I went and locked it using the fob, and then unlocked it again, got in the car and it started!! Did I just get lucky or is there an issue with the immobilizer system that would cause this? I know there is a standby mode for it, but I have garaged the car for long periods (on a trickle charger though) without this happening.