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Occaisionally engine turns over, but doesn't fire (start)during warm weather on my 2002 Mazda Tribue. A few times this has happened after making several short trips (stopping and starting the car within a short time frame - sometimes with air cond on and once without). Yesterday this happened after the car had been sitting in a parking lot all day (in 80+ degrees for several hours) and had approx 1/8 tank of gas. After putting a couple gallons of gas in this morning it started right up, but I'm not sure if it's because tank had more gas or because of the cooler morning temperature. On at least one other occaision I recall having less than 1/4 tank of gas also when it didn't start. A diagnostic attempt two years ago couldn't determine the problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

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In my opinion it is caused by having too little gas in the tank. You are not suppose to run it it with that little gas anyways because it is bad for your car since all the contaminants can be sucked into the injectors and cause all kinds of problem.

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