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2000 9-3 base model 152,000 miles
Recently, my 9-3 began to have intermittent stumbling/no starting issues. It would always start cold, but the warm start was unpredictable. Once running, it would stumble or die at low rpm, but if I kept the rpms up I could drive all day.
It died on me several times, but only twice was I in between home and my destination. Both times, t would crank and crank with no start. And both times it started right up when I sprayed starter fluid in the throttle body.
Well, I was unsure whether it was the CPS or the fuel pump. The no warm start made me think CPS, but that didn't make sense with the starter fluid fix.
I pulled the codes, and it was the one for CPS out of range. So I figured itS at least the CPS and changed it. That was it. Its running fine now.
SO, FYI, a bad CPS can seem a lot like a bad fuel pump.
Also, I was kind of dreading the CPS project based on posts here about what a bear it is. It's not that bad at all. I got to it from underneath with the car on ramps. Took maybe an hour working leisurely.
One thing I will say is that the Torx bolt on my 2000 9-3 base model is a T-30. Lots of posts on this site say 27 and one mysteriously says 27.5 (something I'm not sure even exists but maybe it's just rare).
Again, on my car it's a T-30. I used the T-27 on blind faith and dang near stripped the bolt before figuring out that something wasn't right. SO there may be different size bolts out there... keep an open mind.
posted by 65.101.153...
, Mon, 3 Feb 2014 17:16:55
, Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:55:14
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