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Passat won't start

I live in the cold canadian prairies and my 99 Passat 1.8T was working fine up until yesterday. I went to start it and and it started for 5 secs then stopped. after that, it would not start again. It rotates with some decent power and I can here it firing a little, but just will not start. I have tried boosting it with cables and still not luck, sounds like it wants to start, just wont. Not sure if this is related to the cold or not, I cannot plug in a block heater like most people have but I don't normally use one anyways. Anybody have any ideas what to check??

TIA Darren

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Tado
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frozen fuel lines? maybe some ice in there?

later, dave (One out of many Daves)

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dave

Thats what I was thinking, but my other car (honda) I do not run any gasline antifreeze in it and its lines with freeze also if that was the case, just guessing? I guess its too late to put in gasline antifreeze now, as it needs to be run through

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Tado

How many miles on the timing belt? They are most prone to fail when it's cold and the oil is thick. Other than that, maybe it's flooded, if so a new set of spark plugs would tell.

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Woodchuck

There is about 100,000km on the current timing belt, planning on changing itthis spring. If it was broken, I would notice and not hear the engine giving the occasional fire right? Any recommendation on type of plugs if I try and change those? Thanks again

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Tado

Well I changed the spark plugs and gave it a good boost, got it started after that, thanks! The old sparkplugs had some oil on them and smelled of fuel, wonder what caused that initially? Thanks again, Darren

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