Blitzeclips
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- Aug 5, 2004
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Bear,
Delaware
Well as you can probably see with my thread history I have been having a problem with sputtering while I drive my car. It's becoming a daily thing and to the point where I'm about to drive this car off a damn cliff.
Basically, the car will randomly shut off at idle, or while I'm driving. But it doesn't necessarily cut off, I'll be driving and the car will begin to buck very very hard, I think it's because of the fact that I'm driving and already applying throttle when the car begins to die; therefore it won't fully shut off in the middle of a drive but it will just buck very very hard for a few seconds and then drive like normal.... but not quite. The car will sometimes hesiate to accelerate and sounds weak. It doesnt always happen though, sometime I can start the car and take a trip without the problem. But 80% of the time this happens. It's been getting worse. It's almost as if someone is cutting fuel supply or somethng, but I have no leaks or anything.
I am thinking it's either my ECU or CPS. I've heard f**ked up things happen when you CPS goes out but I don't know exactly how to tell if that's the case. I'd like to buy an ECU but if the CPS is the issue then I wasted money the the ECU. Vise versa for the CPS.
My questions to you guys....
1) Would this be a common problem with the ECU? Or CPS?
2) Is there anyway I can check these to see if they need to be replaced?
If these don't fix it I'm moving onto either my fuel pump or possibly my FMU...
Thanks in advance for any help. I am trying to figure this out before I'm left stranded in the middle of center city Philly .
Basically, the car will randomly shut off at idle, or while I'm driving. But it doesn't necessarily cut off, I'll be driving and the car will begin to buck very very hard, I think it's because of the fact that I'm driving and already applying throttle when the car begins to die; therefore it won't fully shut off in the middle of a drive but it will just buck very very hard for a few seconds and then drive like normal.... but not quite. The car will sometimes hesiate to accelerate and sounds weak. It doesnt always happen though, sometime I can start the car and take a trip without the problem. But 80% of the time this happens. It's been getting worse. It's almost as if someone is cutting fuel supply or somethng, but I have no leaks or anything.
I am thinking it's either my ECU or CPS. I've heard f**ked up things happen when you CPS goes out but I don't know exactly how to tell if that's the case. I'd like to buy an ECU but if the CPS is the issue then I wasted money the the ECU. Vise versa for the CPS.
My questions to you guys....
1) Would this be a common problem with the ECU? Or CPS?
2) Is there anyway I can check these to see if they need to be replaced?
If these don't fix it I'm moving onto either my fuel pump or possibly my FMU...
Thanks in advance for any help. I am trying to figure this out before I'm left stranded in the middle of center city Philly .