My Bloody car

[old bob]

I must bethe dumbest guy on this web page> After spending in excess of a$1700 on trying to sor out my car using at least a couple of steelers and others I still have a problem with my electrics. The car keeps dropping into drive from economy and stalls at odd times. The wife is getting very scratchy about it and as you can appreciate my life is becoming difficult. I have replaced hoses instrument cluster twice egs module and still it is not running properly.
Even the Steeler told me to come and collect it as they cannot find the fault with a suggestion I get another gear box
Any ideas better still anyone in Brisbane who has someone who can help.I will have to consider selling

[BigKriss]

damm. Javier knows a lot about electronics, but since you have already taken it to 2 dealers I don't like your chances Bob.

[BillionPa]

stalls as the engine stops running? and if so, what speed? and if moving, can you recall if there was a gear change in progress?

[old bob]

Pulling into the driveway vitually no speed it stops. Going off at the lights it stops. My patience is fast disappearing. Could it be a sensor in the box that is causing the problem that seems to be all that is left

[DaveVoorhis]

You mean the engine stops running? There could be any number of different causes. I would suggest trying a different dealership or an independent specialist. It sounds like your current dealership is lacking in diagnostic skills. It could be as simple as a cracked master fuse.

[Ross]

Gotta love it. @#$%^ dealer charges $$$$ because they are experts and have all the diagnostic tools. "Sorry sir, we can't figure it out, so we will just change expensive parts at your expense until we stumble on the fault. Oh, thats $$$ for the guesses so far".
Good luck

[filip00]

screw auto trans, get a manual.

[Jehu]

screw auto trans, get a manual.

I second...

[Digita1 Ecstasy]

since the last two posts were so beneficial to you fixing your problem. Im going to go a little OT here and ask why did you make 3 threads for this instead of one?


I don't know much anything about the gm slushes they stuff in our E34's but. My friends E34 had slippage problems and gears falling out. Instead of being a hardware problem it was software. Check there?

[rob101]

I second...
I concur,
sorry to hear about your troubles bob, unfortunately unlike mechanical stuff electronics is not my forte :(

[genphreak]

I concur,
sorry to hear about your troubles bob, unfortunately unlike mechanical stuff electronics is not my forte :(People, could the 50A fusible link (by the battery) cut power to the DME? These fuses die slowly and often go intermittently at first.

Also, is the problem getting worse Bob?

Best advice I can give is be patient- if it fails (and won't start you have a great faulty condition) and if you keep a multi-meter with you some basic checks might help you to find the problem.

What do the dashboard warning lights do or not do exactly when this happens?

Bob, 'The car keeps dropping into drive from economy and stalls at odd times' is not much to go on. Do you mean it seelects D from Nuetral? When exactly does it stall? At speed/accel/decel/idle? Other symptoms? If you tell us more detail, there are people here that will be able to figure this out. The collective experince on this board in 'considerable'.

[bsell]

Pulling into the driveway vitually no speed it stops. Going off at the lights it stops. My patience is fast disappearing. Could it be a sensor in the box that is causing the problem that seems to be all that is left

Don't you love intermittent electrical problems?:(

Have all of the grounds been checked? As in disassembled and cleaned of corrosion and/or scuffed up just because? How about checking the ground cables between the engine/trans and body? What I am thinking is there is a cable or connection is losing contact due to twisting or side loading during driving.

Also, have all of the connectors that bridge between the engine/trans assy and body been disconnected and checked for corrosion or backed out pins?

I can't stress enough how thorough you must be to find intermittent electrical problems. Take heart that there is a finite number of connections to check and they can all be checked eventually. It would be great if the dirty connection would stay broken so you could find it easily but such is life.;)

I lived with a similar problem with my Skyline GTS-T for a year and a half until I stumbled across it one day. The connection at the MAF had broken at the main connector's solder joint at the circuit board and would loose contact during wet or very hot weather. A $4 solder iron, a $2 tube of blue silicone, and 30 minutes of my time, the car was solid again (and for 4 years later!).