2nd opinion on opti problem?
09-12-2008, 05:25 PM
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2nd opinion on opti problem? Yesterday driving down the highway my car just shut off (94 Z) so I pulled over to the side and was able to restart and took off again but only after a few minutes of driving it did it again but this time I was not able to restart it. I have a fuel pres. gauge and that was showing normal so I know it wasn't the fuel pump and I just installed a new AC Delco opti in 05' and only have about 40K miles on it so I didn't think it was that. Well I had to have the car towed to a shop and the test reveals that the opti is bad. I know it's mechanical so it's prone to failure but only 40K miles???? What are your thoughts about this???
09-12-2008, 09:56 PM
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I've never had an opti go completely out me, changed mine twice over 175k miles, the most recent @ 150k.
Question: now I'm assuming you'd get an SES if the opti wasn't able to read correctly? I would have scanned the sucker before taking it to the shop.
Assuming the opti is to blame (and I keep thinking heat related somewhere if you can drive it for a bit and it dies by the way..) with low mileage like that on a non pos opti (delco)... I'd check the vacuum line that runs into it when you replace it to see if it actually has vacuum :-)
Question: now I'm assuming you'd get an SES if the opti wasn't able to read correctly? I would have scanned the sucker before taking it to the shop.
Assuming the opti is to blame (and I keep thinking heat related somewhere if you can drive it for a bit and it dies by the way..) with low mileage like that on a non pos opti (delco)... I'd check the vacuum line that runs into it when you replace it to see if it actually has vacuum :-)
09-12-2008, 10:29 PM
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I've never had an opti go completely out me, changed mine twice over 175k miles, the most recent @ 150k.
Question: now I'm assuming you'd get an SES if the opti wasn't able to read correctly? I would have scanned the sucker before taking it to the shop.
Assuming the opti is to blame (and I keep thinking heat related somewhere if you can drive it for a bit and it dies by the way..) with low mileage like that on a non pos opti (delco)... I'd check the vacuum line that runs into it when you replace it to see if it actually has vacuum :-)
Question: now I'm assuming you'd get an SES if the opti wasn't able to read correctly? I would have scanned the sucker before taking it to the shop.
Assuming the opti is to blame (and I keep thinking heat related somewhere if you can drive it for a bit and it dies by the way..) with low mileage like that on a non pos opti (delco)... I'd check the vacuum line that runs into it when you replace it to see if it actually has vacuum :-)