That's exactly what happened after I stalled my car at a traffic light. No biggie just push the start button to restart the car and zoom off right?? Wrong!! I couldn't restart the car. Was she punishing me for stalling her in front of all those people? So as I sat there, blocking traffic and turning a couple of shades redder sp? I tried and tried and tried. I checked to make sure that I had the clutch depressed all the way, I even put the gear in neutral. No dice!! So I pulled the keys out (don't know exactly why I did this) and put in back in and walla.. she started right up. Is this normal? Has anyone else noticed this? I haven't had the courage to go and stall the car again to see if it would happen again.

-machokow

 

Haha, I stalled when I did a 180 at a local autoX and the car was damn near impossible to start!! But after holding down on the start button for like a minute, it finally turned over. It could be likely that the engine is flooded after you stall..

 

I remember a thread from a long time ago. I think it had something to do with the system protecting itself from harm, but I'm not sure.

 

Well, if you think about it, in a car without a start button, the key actually is in the "on" position after you start the car. The key actually has 3 stages: off, on, and start. Since we don't really have a start position for our keys, I think you'd have to turn the key back to the off position before trying to start the car again with the start button. Hope this makes sense.

 

i've stalled a couple of times in the beginning but i'm usually up and running in seconds...not sure why you had to remove the key and all that good stuff...normally i just push the button and i'm back on my way

 

i stalled out 3 times today (im having a weird day for some reason) and it started back up with just pressing the button altough it did take a sec for the to finally crank

 

it has happend to me also, thankfully no one was around

 

Hmm, now I've been a passenger in a handful of S2000's that looped and stalled at Auto-X (and, ahem, my own) and they all took some effort (time) to restart. I believe the protection theory but I haven't read any details about it.

 

I have stalled only once, but that time I was able to just derpress the clutch and push the button to restart, no need to touch the key or anything.

 

My best guess would be the immobilizer system playing tricks on you.