Hmm...

 

Firstly (and most stupidly), where on earth is the washer fluid reservoir? My untrained eyes can only see two reservoirs under the bonnet - one is the brakes, the other one's opaque, so I don't want to assume it's washer fluid. I tried following the pipes from the squirty things, but it got complicated & I was cold, so I gave up (do I sound pathetic yet?). I checked the online manual but it doesn't seem to deal with such mundane matters.

 

And secondly, this morning the Z stalled twice on the 15min drive into work - both times when fully warmed up, A/C off, approaching a junction, clutch in... and both times it started first time, no problem. It's never done anything like this *at all*, yet today it's done it twice. My first thoughts were lambda sensor (but I know nothing - the car was running rich when I bought it four months ago, and I heard this can foul them), but this would make it hard to restart, right? SSRAE's post on beermonster's similar thread a few days back is now making me think TPS - where *is* the thing, and how would I go about cleaning & resetting it? Remember to make your advice so simple that even a monkey could follow it, please :)

 

Jeez, with the "lights" warning light still shining bright, the washer fluid light flashing on and off, and the battery light coming on when it stalls, it's like a christmassy disco in there...

Washer bottle is tucked in below the drivers side headlight. there is a long spout on this that you will see behind/side of he driver headlight.

 

as for the TPS. whats a TPS??????

 

hope this is of some use to you

Mick

I don't think it sounds like the TPS (THROTTLE POSITION SENSOR)

but maybe more like the PCV valves. How hard were you braking? On pretty harsh braking my revs used to dip right down and stall and this was due to the pcv valves being knackered, the springs inside were f*cked. The momentum of the car does something(!) to these that makes the revs dip rightdown.

 

Hope this helps.

 

James.

OK... I posted the above quickly before shooting off to AutoGlass to *finally* get my quarterlight fixed (over 12 weeks now :)), and while I was messing around there, I saw a washer filler cap under the boot lid (passenger side) - don't know if there are separate ones for the rear & front, or if it's different for SWBs (yes, I forgot to mention that, also that it's an NA... oops), but I'll check under the headlight too anyway, so thanks Mike :D

 

james300, I don't think I was braking hard - first time I was coming up an off-ramp, and I don't think I'd started braking at all. Second time was shortly after, coasting down a small hill at work, and I might have been braking... but not hard.

On the way to AutoGlass and back, I was pretty gentle with everything - kept it in gear & let the engine do most of the braking, only dipped the clutch when everything had slowed down - and there was no stalling. Upshot of this? Well, although I wasn't braking hard before, maybe it *was* a momentum thing - giving it some throttle, then coming off the gas & onto the clutch.. maybe that caused it :/ I'm going to keep an eye on this, experiment a little, I think...

 

Oh, my quarterlight still isn't fixed - Nissan UK tried to get away with sending a UK spec window, when even AutoGlass knew it was a SWB :S

 

Thx for the help, guys :)

I'm getting similar probs with my impreza and i've been advised to clean out the idle control sensor with carb cleaner (I don't even know if a Z has an ICS or if it can be cleaned).

 

Does your car sometimes stall if you are stationary and give it some revs then let off the gas?

 

I find that if i pull up to junctions in gear and use engine braking to bring the revs down slowly the car seems ok (though idling a little low). If i pull up to a junction quickly and press the clutch before the revs have dropped the car will occasionally stall. Sound similar?

Yeah, sounds similar, except I've not had any trouble when stationary (although today is my first stalling)..... *but* that makes me wonder if it's worth mentioning: sometimes when I'm dribbling up to a junction (i.e. coasting slowly, no serious braking, either out of gear or with the clutch in), not fully warm yet, the revs drop (to what I'd expect a warm idle to be, nowhere near stalling, though). Once I've braked, and stopped completely, the revs jump back up to a high idle. It happens quite a bit, but I figured it was normal, and I'm used to it now. Maybe it *is* normal, I dunno..

 

But pulling up to a junction quickly and pressing the clutch before the revs have dropped, yes, that's exactly what I meant... I shall go have another forage in the online manual. Thanks :)