240 stalling

It's very bad for an engine, not to speak about the enviroment, to "warm" it up that way without any load. The originaly french piece of technique is taking revenge ;-)

Try the fusebox (just tun the fuses a few times) for a start and later check on the high voltage parts under the hood.

Martijn

Sometimes there's not much of an option, the car has to warm up enough to thaw things out if it's a really cold day Of course I could buy a new ice scraper to replace the one I lost and be done with it.

Sound like dead air mass meter symptoms. Try disconnecting the air mass meter and see if anything changes.

I concur with the other poster about how bad it is to warm up the car by idling.

I have heard that as well and thus, I never let my car idle in order to warm it up. However, what is the reason for not doing so? What is so harmful against the engine?

/Anders

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Slow warmup so the engine spends more time cold with parts loose fitting and out of tolerance. It's a lot better for it to idle than to rev it way up like some idiots do, but ideally it should be driven gently until it reaches full temperature.

This above practice also minimizes fuel usage and emissions.

Probably should mention that some cars (maybe only older models?) idle very high until they reach a certain temperature and then drop to normal idle speeds...only then should you put it in gear and drive it to warm. This only seems to happen on very cold days and the engine speed drops long before the temp guage budges.

As bad as it might be to idle cold it must be much worse to pop your automatic into drive at 2200rpm. I suppose this isn't as much of an issue if you're driving a stick.

blurp

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 19:55:09 GMT, the illustrious "James Sweet" favored us with the following prose:

I have had these exact symtoms fixed by replacing the fuel filter.

Bob R.