325 dies under way,..

cosmo · 2007-12-22T00:40:10+00:00

Hello, I thought I had this sorted but these same symptoms havecropped up again: I'm cruising along with my sunglasses on and my toetapping and then the engine stops running. I coast to the side of theroad while people jeer and laugh and crank the starter. It spins butdoesn't fire. I crank for 10 secs and wait 60 secs and try again.After about 4 minutes of this it starts and runs fine, sometimes forweeks, sometimes for minutes. It died 5 times yesterday after runningfine for a month. I checked the main relay connections and they'restill shiny from my last clean up.The car was brought to an expensive shop with this problem last summerand it tested no error codes but did a similar thing for the mechanic-it would drive fine but stall at stop signs- start hard and then driveagain. He jiggled the wires- which is my specialty, and the car ranfine again. He noted, "tach signal probably getting lost,.". Any ideawhere the sensor for this? From the Bentley manual I've tested thecold start sensor and the sensor that's on the front of the cam forresistance and they are within range at the specified temp. There'sanother sensor- maybe crank position- down near the crank pulley,that's not even supposed to be on my model. I'm open to suggestion.Thanks for your time and happy motoring to those of you in a positionto do so.

Dec 22, 2007 21 Replies

Rate this thread:

Michael Yeager 18 years ago

Vote

Scott Dorsey 18 years ago

With the old Motronic system, though, a lot of things will kill the engine dead that on more modern and robust engine controllers will enable a limp-home mode. For example, the oxygen sensor failures or the failure of the air mass sensor.

What do you want from 4k of code? It's not a Cray in that box.

--scott

Vote

Join the Discussion

Have something to add? Share your thoughts — no account required.

Didn't find your answer?

Ask the community — no account required