Engine failure when turning.

Hello folks,

Happy holidays!

My car is a 97 chevy lumina. The car works fine in most of the times, but when reducing the speed and do the turning, the engine cut off sometimes. When the problem came, all the panel lights were on and I lost the control of the steering wheel. The same thing sometimes happens when I back the car, the car shaked and then the engine stop.

I went to a garage and replaced the wires and plugs, but it doesn't help. They hooked with the computer but didn't find any problem. Plus, the engine light is on most of the time except when I show it to the garage people.

Any suggestion will be appreciated....

Kevin

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zhanghongge
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Likewise! :)

Its too bad the engine light isn't on when you hit the garage since they could probably pull the OBD code off it.

Anyway, this is a shot in the dark, but I recall having similar problems in my Tahoe I had, and it turned out to be a faulty inertia switch. I guess it figured every time I turned a corner it thought the police were doing a PIT maneuver on me :)

Sparky

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Sparky

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Shep

I'd say it would be fuel pump pickup issues if it weren't for that backing up part. Your fuel would have to be darn low and on a heck of an incline too, or your speed so high that the fuel migrates to one side of the tank. :)

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ed

Kevin, If you lost control of the steering wheel, that signifies the power steering ... The engine light usually just suggests emissions problems ... Is the car overheating when these problems happen? If so it could be the alternator not working properly. This controls the power steering as well as several other "niceties" that we have in our cars. I had a ball bearing seize up on me which busted my belt and ended up causing my alternator to not do its job. A ten dollar part caused my power steering to go, the coolant to not travel, and many other things to not work. I would check to make sure that is not bad. Take it in a have it put through a bench check.

Christopher

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Wycritter

If so it could

Isnt the power steering run directly off the motor, from a pump? my volvo runs mechanical power steering, it dies if the car stalls simply because the motor isnt turning anymore, and therefor steering isnt pumping. The alternator just charges the battery, if the alternator was bad the battery would go flat over time and the car would stall and wouldnt start at all. If it starts just after the corner i'd say the alternator is fine. Its probably worth checking the wires going to and from the ignition coil to make sure they arent intermittent, as well as the wires to the fuel pump and relay

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Josh

I had a smiliar problem (stalling sometimes when turning at low speeds)with my 95 Dodge Caravan. The cause was a ruptured diaphragm in the vacuum controlled actuator for the egr. I discovered this by temporarily disconnecting the vacuum line. When I did that, the problem went away.

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Tim B

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