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DISCUSSION => Engine management => Topic started by: Matt-B on April 24, 2009, 02:45:54 PM

Title: please help
Post by: Matt-B on April 24, 2009, 02:45:54 PM

I was out and about the other day on a date and the car took a poo like 6 times. Its just randomly died. No noises. Just quit. Id let it sit fr like 2-3 minutes and it started back up. Or I can crank and crank and crank and CRANK and it starts.

Ill also come back from driving it around the blok or whatever and it wont restart????


New Fuel Pump/o2

new FPR

Alternator rebuilt/new regulator

what the hell is wrong with my car. I got a month to the XXX picnic and i cant have it die again. Its my go to work car. Anyone local that helps me fix it or discovers the problem will be reimbursed with $$$.


please help.

Title: please help
Post by: Sophia69IS on April 24, 2009, 02:59:23 PM

Is there any chance your accelerator cable is messed up? Because I know my car did this and I notice my cable was actually broken, so it wasn't getting the right fuel at all.
Also the problem with cranking is present when the cable is broken. =P

Too bad I don't live in Washington anymore. haha.

Good luck.

Title: please help
Post by: Matt-B on April 24, 2009, 03:11:22 PM

well i drove it for like 15min last night.


got in driveway. trt to restart and it burped and bounced and died.



its weird. i thought it was it getting to hot

Title: please help
Post by: beta14ok on April 24, 2009, 03:26:40 PM

Check all of you hoses.....could be one or more of those black tubes under the intake is cracked or broken.

Title: please help
Post by: RED IS 91 on April 24, 2009, 07:36:58 PM

Have you checked your codes ?

Title: please help
Post by: Matt-B on April 25, 2009, 01:36:09 AM

no, code reader is 130$

i should get 1 though


ill check hoses

Title: please help
Post by: BraveUlysses on April 25, 2009, 09:55:35 AM

Or you could do the stomp test to get your codes.

Title: please help
Post by: AcSchnitzer318is on April 27, 2009, 12:03:32 AM

+1 on stomp test...

Title: please help
Post by: Sophia69IS on April 29, 2009, 09:37:03 AM

Usually local automotive places will read your codes for free. Have you tried that?

Title: please help
Post by: 1991 E30 M42 on April 29, 2009, 10:22:22 AM

not the bmw obd 1 systems, stomp test it

Title: please help
Post by: Sophia69IS on April 29, 2009, 11:14:52 AM

oh. Ya that makes sense. What is a stomp test?

Title: please help
Post by: BraveUlysses on April 29, 2009, 01:52:38 PM

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bmw+stomp+test

Title: please help
Post by: Matt-B on May 07, 2009, 02:26:29 PM

so i replaced check engine light bulb hahaha



stomp tested and get 1 4 4 4


i know that means nothing bt something is wrong.


wil a code reader help at all?