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madkiss
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Motor starts, then dies down
« on: Jun 25th, 2005, 1:19pm » |
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Hi all,
just another problem with my Scorpio: I went to local car garage to get a new transformer coil fitted last wednesday, and noticed that afterwards, my car has a funny effect: I switch the engine on, but it dies immediately down. Then, after another start, the motor just works fine.
The catastrophy came an hour ago: While it was raining, I just sat down in the car, started it, and it died down immediately ... the whole thing about 10 times, and finally, the motor stayed on. What could cause such a strange problem?
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madkiss
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Re: Motor starts, then dies down
« Reply #2 on: Jun 25th, 2005, 4:05pm » |
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hm ... I am not sure I can follow you. My car is a 2.3i DOHC 16v Scorpio estate car ... so, what am I supposed to check?
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Re: Motor starts, then dies down
« Reply #4 on: Jun 25th, 2005, 4:43pm » |
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Okay, so what does "IVC" stand for?
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Re: Motor starts, then dies down
« Reply #5 on: Jun 25th, 2005, 4:50pm » |
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Oh, and, nitram, say ...
did I get it right that you started your motor, and it stay on, but the revs dropped to a minimum, and you were then able to push them up again without re-starting the car? Because that I what I need to do whenever I encounter the effect. I gott turn the key again, gotta start the motor again ...
By the way: My mother just drove the car some minutes ago, she told me that she had the same problems, and managed to trick the car out by starting it, immediately releasing the hand-brake, thus rolling forward a bit -- the motor obviously did not die down, and she could just drive it home
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Re: Motor starts, then dies down
« Reply #7 on: Jun 25th, 2005, 7:18pm » |
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What keyword to search for?
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Re: Motor starts, then dies down
« Reply #8 on: Jun 25th, 2005, 8:53pm » |
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Iddle Control Valve. Simmo
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Re: Motor starts, then dies down
« Reply #9 on: Jun 26th, 2005, 12:17pm » |
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Okay, if that ICV thing turns out to be not the problem, what would other places be to search? I thought about using OBD and all that, but my notebook has no Serial-port-plug, so I would need to get a USB-Serial-adpter first ...
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nitram
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Re: Motor starts, then dies down
« Reply #10 on: Jun 27th, 2005, 1:47pm » |
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on Jun 25th, 2005, 4:50pm, madkiss wrote:Oh, and, nitram, say ...
did I get it right that you started your motor, and it stay on, but the revs dropped to a minimum, and you were then able to push them up again without re-starting the car? Because that I what I need to do whenever I encounter the effect. I gott turn the key again, gotta start the motor again ...
By the way: My mother just drove the car some minutes ago, she told me that she had the same problems, and managed to trick the car out by starting it, immediately releasing the hand-brake, thus rolling forward a bit -- the motor obviously did not die down, and she could just drive it home |
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That does sound very similar to my problem (I think - I'm having a little trouble reading your English). Sometimes it would stall, sometimes nearly stall. Also the fact that once i got the car moving it seemed OK is similar to yours. It's just a quick, easy and cheap job to start with.
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