Hi All,
This morning my Vette started to miss slightly and then stalled at a red light. It started right back up and I continued although it had a random miss. When I got to my block and stopped at the stop sighn right in front of my house the car died and I can't get it started again. Luckly that I was in front of my house.

It just turns over, won't start. It is 15 degress outside. Anyone have any suggestions were to start troubleshooting?

Thanks for all suggestions!

 

Check for DTC codes.

 

Thanks for your reply. I just went out and it started right up and ran great! I will monitor has it runs for a while and see how it goes. Thanks again!

 

clydeyb, You need to check for Trouble Codes. If it was a Computer related problem, it will be stored in memory.

 

Ok, I will. I lent my OBDII Code Reader out to a co-worker, but as soon as I get it back I will. Thanks

 

You do not need a scanner.


http://www.c5forum.com/ayc/dtcdic.php

 

I will check for stored codes. thanks so much for your advice!

 

Chances are if it did it once it will do it again.

I'm sure it threw some codes, that's a good start.

 

I had a similar experience this weekend, pulled the car out of the garage for about twenty minutes and left it running while it was setting in the driveway. Car started fine and was running fine when I got out of it. When I finished doing what I needed to do in the garage I went to pull the car back in and the active handling/traction control message came across the DIC. I thought nothing of the message because it was snowing and the wheels were spinning some due to the snow on the driveway. When the car started spinning the engine just felt like it was running on two cylinders. The car would idle but very rough, give it some throttle and it would shake and miss. This went on for about five minutes and it finally just died and would not restart. When you would crank it, it would try to fire sporadically but not start. Pulled up the DIC and it showed no codes, even ran through them manually and nothing. Pulled the filter out of the varaam to make sure the car had not sucked snow up in the intake an nothing there. Well the gas gauge was showing just below half but I could not figure anything else out so I put about 3 gallons of gas in and a half a bottle of gas line antifreeze and the damn thing started right up, but there was a terrible smell coming from the exhaust. The smell lasted about ten minutes and smelled like stale gas. The gas in the tank has been in there for a while, but I drove the car about two weeks ago and it ran fine then. Gas gauge now reads just above half. I guess I will find out if the gauge is wrong when I take the car to fill it up, but I don't think it is wrong. Any ideas what could have been wrong.

 

I've never seen people post about gas gauges reading over what you have, it's always been 0, or lower than what you have. But I'm not saying this isn't possible, I just haven't ran across anyone posting that in the time I've been browsing CF.

I also wouldn't think that your car would run bad and miss for 5 minutes if you were low on gas. I think it would be more abrupt. Run bad for a few seconds then die out... not minutes. I could also be wrong about this, I haven't ever ran a car out of gas, only ATV's and smaller engines. Typically when they run out, they run out fast.

Generically speaking gas freezes around -40 to -60 degrees, up to -157 degrees with the right additaves (more or less dependant on the type, mixture, additaves ect).... so I highly doubt your gas was freezing.

I'm not of much help other than I don't think it was because you ran out of gas, and the lines weren't freezing. I would look somewhere else... bad gas? ... no DIC codes makes it hard to determine.

 

The no codes showing and no check engine really baffled me. I have had my gas gauge go from 3/4th's to empty a few times but never showing more gas than what is in the tank. I don't drive the car in bad weather so maybe it got pissed at me for sitting out in the snow for twenty minutes and got even with me. They say cars are like women and I guess mine just decided to be a real bitch that day, who knows. I would just like to know what happened so it does not leave me stranded somewhere if it decides to do it again.

 

I agree. I think something was wrong... chances of it happening again IMO hare likely. But knowing where to start is a big issue. Maybe someone else can chime in.

Sorry man, sucks to be in that situation.

 

ttt Anybody else have any ideas?