Engine cutting out abnormally.

[skat 325is]

My car started doing this about 2 days ago, but it doesnt necesarily has to be with bumps on the road...just the damn car randomly wants to like stall, sometimes happens while the car is moving...sometimes while the car is idling. Any ideas ?? Its a very irritating problem.

[e30Matt]

Its nothing that will ever apply to anyone else on the board, so there is no sense going into it.

Sounds like Jordan pulled a stupid. ;) :P

[iXer]

My car started doing this about 2 days ago, but it doesnt necesarily has to be with bumps on the road...just the damn car randomly wants to like stall, sometimes happens while the car is moving...sometimes while the car is idling. Any ideas ?? Its a very irritating problem.

I would open the hood, start the engine and knock on the relays in front of the left strut tower. If it stumbles or dies, then it might be any of the relays going bad, or in my case simply oxidized contact areas.
Anything else you notice besides the engine stalling? Like gauges going dead, lights going out?

/Mattias

[skat 325is]

Only abnormal thing is the temp gauge died...tested if the gauge is dead but its fine...im replacing the sensor today after i get off work.

[Kavkazia]

Had same problem, turned out my battery connection inside the engine compartment loose.

[natorious]

i know this isnt the case for jordan... but that happend in my corrado.. turned out to be a bad ignition coil.. swapped that out and it was fine...

now it has a ground problem somewhere... i dont drive it anymore anyways.. i'll get around to fixing it at some point

[JAM]

BUMP

TELL US WHAT THE PROBLEM WAS

my car is doing the exact same thing and i REALLY want to know what the issue was.

jordan, how can you start this thread, then tell us you fixed it, then not tell us what the problem was?!?!??!

[NC325iC]

this thread is 3 years old

[scabzzzz]

lol

thats awesome

[houstonh]

my guess was a remote kill switch of some sort for security reasons. loose connection or something like that.

[Jordan]

Yeah.. this is a oldie all right, I was kinda embarrassed at the oversight at the time so I didn't fess up to an error on my part from initial assembly of the car.

The problem was the M6x1.0 10mm headed nut that secures the secondary battery wire to the battery junction block in the engine bay above the battery tray. It had worked itself loose and was breaking contact intermittently.

[scabzzzz]

i love freebies like that..