Mr H/C car died on me today. RPM gauge drops
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Mr H/C car died on me today. RPM gauge drops
I was driving to Buena Park today, it was hot but not Summer hot. Humid I guess and I drove from Ontario to Buena Park, got off Beach and car sputtered and I stopped at La Palma the car died. I parked and restarted and went again, then it died again at another stop light, took three times to start it and it went. Died a third time and i let it cool for about two hours, feels weird, on the way home in traffic going 60 it just felt like it wanted to go out again. Voltage gas all good, all fluids are fine. Everything, on the gauges is fine expect the RPM gauge, when the car died those times it would drop all the way down before my car would turn off.
Any thoughts?
Any thoughts?
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check the cam position sensor..had a car that was doing the same, tach would drop to 0 then it wanted to die, checked the cam position sensor and it was bad, replaced it and good to go!
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I was driving to Buena Park today, it was hot but not Summer hot. Humid I guess and I drove from Ontario to Buena Park, got off Beach and car sputtered and I stopped at La Palma the car died. I parked and restarted and went again, then it died again at another stop light, took three times to start it and it went. Died a third time and i let it cool for about two hours, feels weird, on the way home in traffic going 60 it just felt like it wanted to go out again. Voltage gas all good, all fluids are fine. Everything, on the gauges is fine expect the RPM gauge, when the car died those times it would drop all the way down before my car would turn off.
Any thoughts?
Any thoughts?
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Yup, Usually u see a code for the heater element failing especially on cold starts. O2s dont really "go out" but they get sluggish and car responds slowly to fuel/air changes. Good thing is it dont matter at wot. Ive had o2 codes for 2yrs. Lol. Still wouldnt cause the car to die...that ive seen.
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Yup, Usually u see a code for the heater element failing especially on cold starts. O2s dont really "go out" but they get sluggish and car responds slowly to fuel/air changes. Good thing is it dont matter at wot. Ive had o2 codes for 2yrs. Lol. Still wouldnt cause the car to die...that ive seen.
U should really get the o2's done. Killing your MPG too.
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The heating element just brings them up to temp but by the time the car is at op temp thyre good to go. No codes once the car is warm. They work fine in normal driving. I just did a 200mi round trip from La Verne to Lancaster and back and used up 8gal or half tank. Thats around 24mpg, I avg 21mpg usually on cruise control 75mph. On a h/c car I'll take that all day.