Hello,
I have a 96 cavalier that I have been driving for nearly 3 years. Since decemeber of 2006 I have had issues with my car randomly not starting. My father who Knows a fair bit about mechanics ran some of his own tests and could not figure out what was wrong with it. We assumed that it was simply some bad gas, cold weather or water in the tank cause by the cold winter. Once the weather warmed up the problem continued. It would randomly not start and if you went back an hour later it would start perfectly and run great. WHen it wouldn't start it would sound like it was trying but nothing would happen, would backfire a few times. Since March it has begun to stall while driving. The first time I was doing 60km and the car shut off and wouldn't start for 10 minutes. The second, third and forth time it occured between 40-
60 km. All the times this has happened the car had been driving for anywhere between 20min to an hour.We finally decided to take my car into a shop who has had it for almost two months now off and on. It has taken so long because they have had to wait for it to die on them as well. Finally it died for a week straight. They ran numerous tests and still have no idea whats wrong with my car. The believe it is something electric and they have also had some concerns about an anti- theft system or my CD that was installed. They have not been able to locate the anti-theft and they took out my CD player and they said everything looked fine.
They have now asked me to take my car back and "break it" for them as they are unable to get it to stall or not start again. I drove it for less than 15 minutes and it stalled on me 5 times but i was always able to restart it.
If anyone can help me that would be great. I can handle this anymore. My mother and I have been attempting to share her car for the last 4 months but this will no longer work.
Thanks, Katie