Was driving saturday on motorway put my foot down and the car started to hold back and stutter i was in the fast lane made my way to the hard shoulder just as i did so it cut out.

I noticed as the car hesitated the first time my hicas light came on but i topped this upthe day before so it was not low,anyway tried to start the car and it just turned over fast without starting for two turns of the key then it started.

Went to get back on motoway again stuttered again but did not cut out ,so left it running for a min then drove the rest of the way home without any hesitation.

Now the car cut out on me a few weeks ago and i changed the PTU S1 for the new type so what else could cause the car to act like that ? any ideas guys.:(

does it smell of overfueling , had similar symptons before,turned out to be ecu temp sensor, do an ecu check for fault codes bud

does it smell of overfueling , had similar symptons before,turned out to be ecu temp sensor, do an ecu check for fault codes bud

 

Hi Tommy21 no it didnt smell of fuel maybe it had something to o with fuel though.

Was it raining? as water getting to the MAF can cause similar problems

Fuel pump could be packing up possibly...

Was it raining? as water getting to the MAF can cause similar problems

 

I would suggest this also :)

that happened on an impreza i owned, happened many many times infact, it turned out to be the maf sensor, it was a strange problem too, it seemed to be 'emphasised' (is that right) by the putting on load, ie: going up a steep hill

Was it raining? as water getting to the MAF can cause similar problems

 

no it was not raining it was dry, i was doing 70 and then it felt like it was holding back then the lights came on igition etc, weird.

or the fpr mine was faulty and had similar probs