Has work been done recently? If so check for pinched wires or wires melted to exhaust If not: Check fuses Your car has an ASD relay, that could be a mess, locate the relay and note if it is preventing the car from operation normal (could be a complicated electrical problem if this is the case) this relay may blow a fuse when you try starting car Is there spark? <-- important info that should be included in your refined question
plugged up fuel injector or bad injector itself.
It could.
faulty distributer, bad earth terminal on batterie also body controle unit ontop of park brake can stop injector pulse, early to late 90 models
You may need to adjust the mixture control
If it's just the no. 2, most likely cause would be a bad fuel injector (for EFI engines).
depending on how 'bad' it is, it would cause your car not to start.... otherwise you would have an intermettinet miss and wouldn't always be the same cylinder. with a multimeter you can check the condition of the distributor.... If it is an intermittent no start condition.... I would look at the fuel pressure and the injector.
Usually a bad coil , or plug. if the injector was bad , the computer would have coded for it. But the cylinder 3 coil and plug arent that easy to get to. Its the one at the fire wall
First do you have spark at the end of the plug wire for the spark plug to fire. If yes, do you have fuel from the injector. If you have spark, then most likely no fuel. Check the wire feed to the injector. Or, could be possibly a blocked injector.
A bad fuel injector poppet could cause that.
If your plugs, wires, cap, rotor and a compression test check out okay I would suspect the #3 fuel injector.
Spark plug, plug wire, distributor cap, injector, internal engine ........as in a blown head gasket.
Either the "O" rings are bad where the injectors go into the cylinder head or the electrical connector on the injector is leaking.