Hootbot
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- Saskatchewan, Canada
I had many breakdowns on a trip to my parents for xmas on Monday
The car drives totally normally in town but on the highway it stutters and dies
I initially thought this could be the overdrive acting up since it went away if I shifted out of overdrive but it was definitely an engine issue when it died on the side of the road, the car restarted and I was able to keep going but it persisted and grew worse and worse as the trip went on, the car stutters if you try and cruise on the highway at 65mph (3000rpm) if you persist in driving at 3000rpm in 4th or overdrive it will buck and backfire out the exhaust and eventually die. you can cycle the key and drive for awhile but it starts doing it again. I thought this could be a fuel starvation concern like a clogged filter but the problem paradoxically goes away if you drive faster (higher rpm)
Hard to really diagnose for me since it only happened after like 30 minutes of driving
It's most certainly rpm related since it did this in 4th and overdrive it would sometimes totally die but then start right back up and work fine for awhile, the car worked totally fine if you kept the rpms up but I did end up doing about 90mph for the last 30 miles of the trip.
I think the issue may be ignition related since it reminds me of the way a car behaves if you get moisture in the distributer cap. The engine will stop and then just start running again.
The car drives totally normally in town but on the highway it stutters and dies
I initially thought this could be the overdrive acting up since it went away if I shifted out of overdrive but it was definitely an engine issue when it died on the side of the road, the car restarted and I was able to keep going but it persisted and grew worse and worse as the trip went on, the car stutters if you try and cruise on the highway at 65mph (3000rpm) if you persist in driving at 3000rpm in 4th or overdrive it will buck and backfire out the exhaust and eventually die. you can cycle the key and drive for awhile but it starts doing it again. I thought this could be a fuel starvation concern like a clogged filter but the problem paradoxically goes away if you drive faster (higher rpm)
Hard to really diagnose for me since it only happened after like 30 minutes of driving
It's most certainly rpm related since it did this in 4th and overdrive it would sometimes totally die but then start right back up and work fine for awhile, the car worked totally fine if you kept the rpms up but I did end up doing about 90mph for the last 30 miles of the trip.
I think the issue may be ignition related since it reminds me of the way a car behaves if you get moisture in the distributer cap. The engine will stop and then just start running again.