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Originally Posted by Sven7
Once again the Probe decided to be a b&$^%. I was coming home from a fun day (Cars and Coffee, it was a big hit, then saw friends), EOC'ing to a stoplight, and the thing decided to not turn on. It turned over and turned over but wouldn't do anything.
(remember three times it has done a similar thing, but nothing works- not even dash lights. a simple disconnect of the battery solves that though)
It was only a couple miles from home so my dad towed it home with the Yukon. I let the tow strap get slack for a few seconds around the corner, it pulled out and took the bottom of my bumper with it.
Got it home and poked around a bit. After half an hour or 45 minutes it inexplicably started working again. Turned on fine and everything. I drove it to a friend's party and everything worked as advertised.
Just bought a blinker module off Ebay for $21 shipped.
This car will have no more EOC until I can get a fuel injector cutoff switch. It's not worth the chance of getting stuck somewhere.
Cars and Coffee Oct. 2012 by Tyler Linner, on Flickr |
For example 850 Volvos are known not to start if they are started and very soon shut off, like for example when moving car on driveway, solution is to wait long time or disconnect battery for 30 seconds or so, some bug in ECU unit that makes it not able to start. Sometimes results fault mode, so starts but there is no go.
So that is one possibility, if it happens to be so that you have had short running perioid before non starting issues.