chitown928s4

I'm having a bad monday. Everything was fine and all of a sudden the car wont stay on. Me thinks bad Idle Speed Valve but what do I know. Any thoughts. To top it off my turn signals wont work either. I couldn't imagine they'd be related. I checked all the fuses and their good. All the lights work but signals don't work...it stays steady when they should be flashing.

hpservertech

for not staying on, what do you mean? Does it turn over but not start? Does the tach bounce when your doing this? Could be the DME relay.

redmund

My signals were screwed too. I took out the relay, popped off the cover, then redid all the solder joints. Works perfectly now. You don't have to remove the solder either, just heat it up until it melts, then let it cool again. I'd also recommend popping out all the light units and cleaning all the contacts.

chitown928s4

This is effing wierd...its back to normal but WTF was that. It started but wouldn't stay on..meaing I had to keep reving her otherwise it would die. Well I just drove it on the highway from visiting the GF and by the time I got off the highway its back to normal...so WTF could that have been. A clog in the fuel line...filter. Its a new 3bar FPR...it was certainly fuel related. Thoughts.

chitown928s4

Ok switched the flasher relay from my parts car and all is good except I dunno WTF my car was giving me problems and then they went away.

Clowd

turn signal relay. happened to me.

edit: perhaps I should read the whole thread before replying. haha.

chitown928s4

OK..it went bad on me again and this time it hasnt fixed itself. on both occasions it had done this after hitting full boost at around 6k rpm and at the end of my run about 10 mins same thing happened where she wouldn't want to stay on. An interetsing twist is that on both occacsions my tank was around 1/4 tank and didnt experience problems when the tank was full. Is it possible I'm kicking more junk from the tank when its emptier and something is clogging my fuel pump. Would a bad dampner posses these problems.

Airflite40

just giving this a bump....

I think that a bad dampner would cause the engine to flood from too much fuel pressure? just guessing here.

chitown928s4

Thanks Borys...hey I'll take you up on your offer for wed. Dunno what else to do to her. I swapped the FPR from 3.0 back to 2.5 and same thing.