I have a 99 saturn sl1 i started my car up yesterday for work let it run a couple of minutes do to the cool weather it ran fine but died on me about 10 minutes into my drive not it wants to start but

SOURCE: Car will not start when cold on first try

its the passlock system. The passlock wire is tiny and fragile, and gets disrupted causing your car to think you are trying to steal it everytime you put your key in.

now you can search for this video on youtube, this is where i learned and ever since i did this i have had NO problem with my car starting for the past 5 months.

you need wire nuts, wire cutters, electrical tape, n socket wrench to take apart steering column

first, go to your fuses, find the airbag fuse and remove it just incase you snip the wrong wire. what you do is look below your steering wheel and take your steering column apart. there are a serious of wires electrical taped together that are plugged in. you peel all the electrical tape back exposing the wires, and you find the WHITE wire. its all white, no other color. This wire is for your Passlock system.... this is the wire that got faulty and is causing the car not to start. now what you do from here is kinda tricky, not too bad though.

Seclude the white wire from the rest, so that you are ready to make your cut. Now, what you do is start your car, leave it running, and while its running you cut the white wire in half. then after cutting the wire, turn your car off, and then turn it back on. it should start right up. Then just put wire nuts on the two ends, and electrical tape them back together

The point of doing this is, one is disables the passlock system completely, and two the reason why you do this while the car is running is because snipping the wire with the car running makes the car think that it got into an accident or something, and puts the BCM/car into a "Fail-safe" mode, making it start every single time no matter what.

i thought this sounded insane at first, but after searching for a couple of hours its the only answer that made sense. and now i am the happiest camper in the world as far as it starting

Dan De Groote

• 35 Answers
• Posted on May 28, 2009

SOURCE: 91 Saturn stalls while driving

check this out it may help you diagnose the issue.
http://www.troublecodes.net/GM/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ9vtD_ssjg
http://www.saturnfans.com/forums/index.php
good luck

SOURCE: 2001 Saturn Sl2 wont run after warmed up

SOUNDS LIKE YOUR CATALYTIC CONVERTER IS DYING

SOURCE: 1998 sl1 battery dies every few days

I'd have the battery tested. Also see my "How To" on checking a drain on the battery.

SOURCE: 2001 Saturn - a week

What is the make, model,engine size just want to make sure providing the correct information for you.

If this is 1.9L two things are most likely causing this problem.The ect engine coolant temperature has been known to cause some pretty bad running issues on these part is about 10-15 dollars. and the other thing is the intake manifold gasket.The cylinder 1 gasket was creased at the factory and Saturn knew about it but did nothing about it.This intake gaskets also will crack and split on other cylinders as well.When you can get in running try spraying induction cleaner around the intake manifold and listen for a rise in rpms.Additionally you may want to remove the idle air control motor just to see if it is full of carbon deposits.