Engine Died at 60 Mph
On the way to work this morning, just overtook someone, put my foot on the gas and nothing... No response, nada. Checked the RPM's and it was dead but the car was still coasting. Very weird... I restarted the car from 'N' (I was doing about 40) and it went into drive but didn't engage, so I pulled over and then went to N to D and all was good...
The problem I have had recently has been rough idling to the point of stalling at lights. So this week... I changed the oil and filters and although I still have low idle it hasn't stalled up til today. The theory's I have are:
1) I knocked the car off with my knee (ignition key), pretty sure i didn't though; can you even do that when you're in Drive?
2) Something went wrong with the car related to my rough idle problems.
I had no check engine light, no limp mode, nothing...
Any ideas? I'm going to check the vacuum hose on the throttle body to see if that is causing my rough idle problems, as i read that some folks have had issues here...
I would take it to the dealer but the car has 38K on it (Is that a record here?) So I'm out of the good warranty.
Ideas, suggestions would be appreciated.
Also where does your XFire tick over when in Drive? Mine ticks over directly on the first line above Zero and then fluctuates around that with rough idle. When in park and 'N' it idles at 3/4's pretty smoothly.
Thanks all...
Last edited by brittt1; Jul 21, 2005 at 11:15 AM.