case in point, I currently own a 96 lincoln mark VIII (daughter's car) that's in the shop with intermittent starting problems. sometimes it just cranks but won't start, others it fires right up. took it to my local ford place, no codes, nothing wrong was their reply. so now it's at a lincoln dealer being looked at with some info I found online related to the issue, hopefully they'll have it fixed this morning as I'm getting tired of hauling the daughter to work every day.