Menacing talon
15+ Year Contributor
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- Sep 16, 2007
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Old Bridge,
New Jersey
I have a 90 Talon Tsi thats pretty much stock except for an exhaust and a boost controller. So I was driving home yesterday after replacing the shifter cables and about 2 minutes from my house I was coming down the hill and I heard kind of a pop and then everything just died. The tach went to 0,all the gauges shut down, but the radio was still playing. I tried popping the clutch seeing as I was doing about 55 MPH,no such luck. Tried turning the key and still no luck. I rolled onto the shoulder and checked distributor wires etc. No problems there, what could make a car die when youre doing 50+ MPH and then not want to restart. When I try to restart the car it will crank but it wont actually catch and turn over,Its like when you do a compression test and unplug the ignition wire and the car will just crank all day. it snowed for the first time here today and my Talon broke last night,Im stuck driving my 73 Nova through the snow so I kind of need to fix this fast if at all possible. I was thinking maybe a timing belt,but I wont be able to check until later today. Sorry for long post
