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I went to start my car this morning, and it took quite a while, it seemed to try to start, then did a repetitive cranking for about 8 seconds, and slowly came to life after about 12 seconds after initially turning the key to Start. The battery sounded like it had juice to crank it, but it was not turning over very fast. I could smell gas afterwards(I just had to move it into the other garage bay), I didn't give it any gas to start it.

Is this normal, for not having drove it in 5 days, and it being very winterlike here? It is kept in a non-heated garage, but it has gotten to 3 above and single digits a couple nights.

I'm not really concerned, since something close to this has never happened, and 5 days, even inside when it hasn't been above freezing all day... I was just wondering if this would be considered "normal" or not.

I'm thinking i'll take it somewhere tonight just to drive it, and probably should take it out, even just for 15 minutes like every other day.

Thanks!