| Re: Car cuts off while driving |
Subject: Re: Car cuts off while driving by nbergma on 2013/4/22 22:49:15 Here's an update for all of you kind gurus who have read and/or replied on this post. It has been just over 2 months since my last post. I just got a call from Hedrick's Chevrolet a few minutes ago saying my car is ready to pick up. They're saying it's really fixed now. I won't be quite ready to make that statement until I've driven the car for a few week. Here's a recap of what has happened since my last post on February 22, 2013. 1. Hedrick's did further testing and decided it was not the Opti-spark that was the problem after all. They found a fault on the 5 volt side of the PCM. This was the very same PCM that had shipped off to Florida to be rebuilt by whatever company they are using to provide that service. The mechanic put a detailed note in with the PCM about what they found with their testing and shipped it back to them. 2. About six weeks later they got the PCM back, installed it, programmed it, then started the car to test it and found it was still dying continually just like it had been doing. The mechanic retested everything and said the PCM was still faulty. They looked around for about a week to see if they could locate a used PCM at a price they were willing to pay so they could install the used one to find out if the car continued to die even with the used one or if it ran properly with a different PCM. Their objective was to be able to "prove" to the place that had rebuilt my PCM (twice already) that they were not fixing whatever was wrong with it. Unfortunately they were not able to find a used PCM at a price they were willing to pay so they packaged my PCM up and shipped it back to the place to be rebuilt for a third time with another note about what the mechanic found during testing. 3. This morning (April 22) they got my PCM back after the third rebuild. They installed it, programmed it, started the car and drove it a bit and they say the problem seems to finally be resolved. I'm going to pick the car up late this afternoon and drive it home and see what happens. If it doesn't die on me on the way home, I'll drive it for a few weeks to make sure I don't have any further problems with it dying. If I can successfully drive it for two or three weeks without it dying, I'll finally feel fairly confident that the problem has been resolved. I'll update this thread again -- hopefully in two or three weeks with the news that my 'Vette is still running great! Thanks again, everyone, for the comments, feedback and recommendations about this. |
