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Re: The Truth is Out There Posted by Arabiflora [Email]  (#1129) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Arabiflora) on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:22:15
In Reply to: The Truth is Out There, PaulS  [Profile/Gallery]
, Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:28:49
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I had a similar experience with my '88 900S about 5 years ago. Driving with a friend from Madison to Milwaukee on a rainy day. My friend was visiting from Boston, had actually been the PO of the car, so it was pretty cool for him/us to tool around in it again. We'd been to a winery and around Madison-- probably 60 miles in total, and then headed towards Milwaukee.
Made it about 30 miles, all is good, and then-- like you describe-- the car dies like the key has been turned. Had to have it towed on a flatbed home where my buddy and I and some mechanically-inclined friends did all the usual stuff: pulled, inspected, and cleaned plugs, checked all ignition connections, checked timing... many beers and mechanics' shrugs, all for naught. She'd gone belly up and there was no getting around it.
Until the next morning. I put the key to her, she started and idled as nicely as can be, and I've never had a similar problem since (>75k mi since, and I'm at 372k mi now).
Admittedly, I've had other problems in the interim, curing which may have inadvertently solved that. The only repair that I've effected that might logically(?) account for mysterious breakdowns such as yours and mine ultimately involved replacement of the ignition coil, and was occasioned by several bouts of complete non-start condition under (extreme) cold temps-- in those cases, simply warming the car to room temp was sufficient to allow for quick and normal starts. Look for old posts of mine, I won't recount that episode any further here.
I'm just throwing the idea your way in hopes that it may be useful, and to let you know that you're not alone. I have a full appreciation of how unnerving such mysterious and sporadic failures can be.
Good luck, and be sure to repost when you get to the bottom of it.
Arabiflora
, Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:28:49, Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:22:15 <-- Viewing This Message, Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:10:55, Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:39:06, Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:50:12
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