Problem: car dies when put in drive, Solution: new coil pack & module

[Berman]

Extremely weird, huh? I was driving back from lunch the other day when suddenly pop, my car shuts off. wtf? I coast to the side of the road and restart it. Starts fine. I put it in drive. It dies.

I towed the car into my friend's shop and he spent a while pulling his hair out trying to figure what caused this, because it was happening intermittantly, maybe 80% of the time you put it in drive. He called his friend who said "I've seen this. Try a different coil pack & module". Took the parts off a parts GN that was conveniently at his shop, put them on, and bam problem fixed.

Who the hell would have guessed that? I'm posting this because someday I know some guy is going to have this problem and be stumped. I'm glad to have had the problem fixed in one day

 

[striker_29]

Berman, was that the only symptom? No missing or stumbling or anything? Mine sometimes dies too when I put it in gear, but I also have a low end miss. I think that may be my problem too.

 

[Berman]

Yup. Ran perfect in park AND reverse, which is what was extremely weird. Again, I'm sure this post is going to help some poor frustrated soul some day.

 

[Rick Krupa]

This post would have came in handy a couple of weeks ago. I had the exact same problem but with my '93 Typhoon. I checked all the past archives on the GN site and Sy/Ty site and could not find a exact answer. I owned my Ty for 8-yrs. This was happening for around a week and would just die and the only way it would start was to pull the ECM fuse and reinstall. Checked fuel press. it was OK so I figured it was electrical. Anyhow had to get it towed because the last time it would not start no matter what. Replaced the Module + Coil and all is well.

 

[1ARUNEM]

Ok, here's my question...

My car dies nearly everytime i put it in gear. However, it runs great otherwise without any misses, etc..

I was thinking iac though. Unfortunately i haven't had time to reset it but i know it is around 50 at warm idle. Could this be causing my prob?

TIA..

 

[QuickWE4]

Yeah, as soon as you put it in drive, there'd be a little bit of a load on the motor, which is usually when a bad module would act up.

Right?

Good info.

Rich

 

[Steve Wood]

It's the module that is bad. Quite often, they will restart after a cool down and run perfectly for a few minutes and then quit again.

 

[boostedLC2]

I just fixed this exact problem with mine by replacing the module. Car would start up an run fine for a few minutes, then just quit w/o warning whether idling or driving down the road. Let it cool off for a while and it would restart.

Jim

 

[Berman]

Originally posted by 1ARUNEM
Ok, here's my question...

My car dies nearly everytime i put it in gear. However, it runs great otherwise without any misses, etc..

I was thinking iac though. Unfortunately i haven't had time to reset it but i know it is around 50 at warm idle. Could this be causing my prob?

TIA..

Sounds exactly like my problem was. Change the coil pack