2002 CRV cold starting stutter/issue!

[gman88667733]

I’ve got a 2002 2.0 petrol auto CRV. I’ve only had it for a month or so, but I have an issue with cold starting... I’ll try to attach the video of the issue, but basically, on warm starts, it starts fine and smoothly, but when left overnight or a little while, the engine coughs it stutters as it starts, the battery light flickers at the same time as the engine stutters too. It needed a new battery when I got the car. The new battery has a lower CCA rating than the old one, which even that had a lower CCA rating than stock. Current battery is rated at 330 or 320 CCA, old one was 380 CCA and stock was 420 CCA I believe.
Could the new battery just not be powerful enough? The rest of the spec is the same.
It is a strange issue.

I’ll link the video on my Google drive as that’ll be easier, cheers

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15t9DjH2nkPpYFmxq1...

If anyone has any ideas, let me know! Supplying garage don’t seem to think it’s an issue, but it is getting worse as the mornings get colder.


Edit - car has done 93k miles and has recently had a service before purchase.


Also noticed that when idling, if I rev the engine a little and then stop, the idle seems to drop quite low for a few seconds, before raising back up. It drops low enough that you can feel it in the car, the car sort of shudders a bit. I suppose on a 17 year old car, the throttle body may be a bit gummed up if it has never been looked at?

Edited by gman88667733 on Thursday 5th September 09:56