Ok well I got up this morning to go to work my little 92 323 1.6. Started up just fine, I mean a little hard but thats was because it was really cold out side like low 30s I think? Any way I was driving just fine for a little while untill I got to a light and stoped well as soon as I can to a full stop the car just shut off. Lights, every thing just sort of clicked off. Well about a sec after that the heater and lights came back on and my check engien light came on and my engien was off.

So I tried to start it and it started right up.

Well threw out some of this morning it did that a couple of times again but always kept starting back up when I pushed in the clutch and turned the key.

I mean is this just because the cold weather, or something else?

I mean I had my heater on full blast, and thats about it on being diffrent on the normal things I have running while driving today.

Also as a side note.

I had just had new NGK spark plugs put in a couple of days ago.

Also have a new Air mass flow sensor that was put in a couple of months ago.

Um other than the new vaule cover gasket I just put on a few days ago. The only thing I have done is put on a new oil filter and put some new GTX oil in it.

thats about it. Any help would be great thanks!

 

Sure sounds like a battery connection to me. What I would do is while the car is idling start wiggling the battery cables and ground cables on the engine. Look in the underhood fusebox where the main cable enters and check that too to see if it is loose.

 

ok I will then. I mean I did clean off the terminals and moved the cables around some when I did that. So maybe they did get a little loose.

I'll check it. Well lol I will as soon as its no so freaking cold out.

thanks.

Could it be any thing else? Just to be on the safe side is there any thing else I should look for?

 

I can not think of much more besides that right now. If the cables were corroded or have had bad corrosion in the past, the inside of the cable under the insulation can be bad too. Since you have not had the car since new you probably will not know. The corrosion from the battery can get inside the cable and cause excessive resistane which is no good, evn if the cable looks good on the outside. I have seen this many times in the past.

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