please help

[Matt-B]

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.

[Sophia69IS]

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.

[Matt-B]

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

[beta14ok]

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

[RED IS 91]

Have you checked your codes ?

[Matt-B]

no, code reader is 130$

i should get 1 though


ill check hoses

[BraveUlysses]

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

[AcSchnitzer318is]

+1 on stomp test...

[Sophia69IS]

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

[1991 E30 M42]

not the bmw obd 1 systems, stomp test it

[Sophia69IS]

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

[BraveUlysses]

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

[Matt-B]

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?