I was on my way home, in the rain, went around a corner and probably through a thin puddle. The engine just died as soon as I throttled it
I coasted a bit and the car wouldnt start

I can get it to start but its very lumpy jumpy, also throws 2 codes, code 4 and code 8

The car will run for 3-5 seconds and then just die, theres nothing you can do about it it dies.

I can start it and start it and start (its hesitant and I have to throttle it)

but it dies

Can anyone tell me what happenned? How can I fix it to bring my baby home, its sitting on the side of the road right now about 1/2km from home

Need asap help




Modified by PINKS at 3:45 PM 8/2/2006

 

sounds like your timing belt may have jumped a tooth with the TDC sensor...take off the cover and reallign your belt, or just replace it if its old

 

Looks like both sensors are in the distributor, Im betting a wire came loose

Im heading back to the car with a spare dizzy and a hammer, hammer is to bash out the broken dizzy if it works lol

Nad now timing didnt jump, motor is new and the car runs mint when it runs for those 3 seconds

 

sounds good, get crackin on those dizzy wires then GL!

 

No i remember there being a wire right under the dizzy , just one wire that clipped onto a mall sensor under the dizzy, that wire i think may have come loose as I used one size larger connector for it

Is that what would cause this?

 

i just went ans swapped the dizzies with one I bought off here, no dice, car threw the exact codes (after clearing them and restarting) and did the same thing
The sensor under the distributor also seems to be fine

The one wire sensor is a firm connection the 2 wire sensor beside it is intact

Ofcourse theres that off chance i was sold a distributor with this exact problem, but its highly unlikely

What do i do to get my car home? Its ******* parked next to my exgirlfriend to

 

BTW- the car ******* shuts off, like dies, I can have it at like 3k rpm (and it runs descent up there) and id dies, just dies no stumbling

Why would it do that, all the threads I see with these codes are just change or swap the dizzy, cars run crappy, mine ucking dies

 

Well whatdya flipping know

Someone sold me a shitty disributor!!

I went back agian with one I thought was causing some misfiring problems last year so its been sitting in the garage but I new it was "fine", it had a damaged cap but I didnt remember I could swap it with one of the good caps til later

So I put that bitch in and VROOOOOOOOOOOM

Car started right up, ran mint

Now I gotta go after the bitch that sold me the broken dist