I have a Volvo 340 (GL 1.7 1990) which is causing me grief at the moment.
Initially the car was having problems in motorway driving. A loss of power occured at 50 mph where the revs just died and then the car stalled. Hubby stopped driving it on the motorway and we swapped cars. I was using it as a local run about - driving 15 - 20 mins to my work and back and it seemed fine.
Then it started not restarting when warm. Did this on several occasions and could take up to 1/2 an hour to get her restarted again.
Car then went in for its MOT and service. After this seemed fine again for about a month. But recently she has started having problems again.
First off first thing in the morning she would start and then die immediately then it would take another couple of attempts with choke fully out to start her. But apart from that OK. Then she stalled going up a hill at a junction near my work. She then did this three days in a row at exactly the same place.
Then the other night we took her out together. Seemed not too bad at first but kind of rough idling and then started cutting out again at speed. We were doing maybe 40 - 50mph and the revs would just totally die (and at this point we could hear a kind of hissing?). Once or twice they came back up again and the car bucked. Other times she would stall and it would take a few attempts to get her started again.
Now the car has had a fair amount of maintenance done on her in the last year. New distributor and rotor arm, new leads, sparks etc (twice) and a completely new carb (when we were advised by a Volvo dealer that was what was causing the problem). As you can imagine we are getting somewhat frustrated with it all as it seems no-one knows what is up with her.
From what I read on here I wonder if it is a dying fuel pump? Or a blockage in the fuel line? Or does anyone have any other ideas?
The car is booked into the garage next week but just wanted to get some opinions from this group as I don't have a great deal of faith in our mechanic getting to the source of the problem. Any help or advice very gratefully recieived.
DD