940 won't hot start

Aug 27, 2003 2 Replies

Hi All. First time here, and I can't find the answer looking through the previous posts.



'89 940 1999cc non turbo gle auto saloon. Runs fine, 100%, until it's hot (the weather, not the engine, the temp gauge never goes past vertical). In hot (36c+) weather (not when cold) it will just stall in traffic queues, revs just drop away unexpectedly like, and when restarted will drop off and stall unless revs held high (1800+) for 20 seconds or so, when it seems fine again. Then it's 100% whilst driving, but when idling in traffic again it will repeat the stalling until it gets a run of half a mile or so, then it's fine until pauses for traffic again. After another short run, in which it drives perfectly, you can park it up for a minute or so to a couple of hours, and it will start fine, then revs drop off within a few seconds and it stalls. It's recently started to stall after starting in the mornings, but it's been a warm few weeks here in the UK. Regularly serviced by me, filters, consumables and fluids etc all fine..



Any thoughts ?? I am reasonably mechanically minded, but not so hot with electrics.... Haynes is no help for this !


Bigjon declared:

Ok, thought I'd leave it for a week - but no replies !! What gives here - I thought there might be a mechanic here somewhere that could at least point me in the right direction !!

Fixed it anyhow - I think. I put in a new fuel pump relay, all seems fine now.

I had the same problem, but it has nothing to do with temprature !

That's the only problem I had with 2 of my 940-s, but it is a potential problem in ALL 940 according to expertice.

An good advice for all 940 owners : Take out the fuel pump relay, take off the cover. Look with a pocket lens on the printed circuit board and fix with a solder iron everything that looks suspicious. (there are only a very few solder points)

When this is fixed (very easy) I would not be surprised if 940 is the most reliable car in the world !

Regards B.O

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