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zhanghongge@gmail.com - 27 Dec 2006 00:20 GMT

Hello folks,

Happy holidays!

My car is a 97 chevy lumina. The car works fine in most of the times,
but when reducing the speed and do the turning, the engine cut off
sometimes. When the problem came, all the panel lights were on and I
lost the control of the steering wheel. The same thing sometimes
happens when I back the car, the car shaked and then the engine stop.

I went to a garage and replaced the wires and plugs, but it doesn't
help. They hooked with the computer but didn't find any problem. Plus,
the engine light is on most of the time except when I show it to the
garage people.

Any suggestion will be appreciated....

Kevin

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Sparky - 27 Dec 2006 00:37 GMT

hanghongge@gmail.com wrote:

> Happy holidays!

Likewise! :)

> I went to a garage and replaced the wires and plugs, but it doesn't
> help. They hooked with the computer but didn't find any problem. Plus,
> the engine light is on most of the time except when I show it to the
> garage people.

Its too bad the engine light isn't on when you hit the garage since they
could probably pull the OBD code off it.

Anyway, this is a shot in the dark, but I recall having similar problems
in my Tahoe I had, and it turned out to be a faulty inertia switch. I
guess it figured every time I turned a corner it thought the police were
doing a PIT maneuver on me :)

Sparky

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Shep - 27 Dec 2006 00:55 GMT

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ed - 27 Dec 2006 02:01 GMT

I'd say it would be fuel pump pickup issues if it weren't for that backing
up part. Your fuel would have to be
darn low and on a heck of an incline too, or your speed so high that the
fuel migrates to one side of the tank. :)

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Wycritter@hotmail.com - 27 Dec 2006 06:37 GMT

Kevin,
If you lost control of the steering wheel, that signifies the power
steering ... The engine light usually just suggests emissions problems
... Is the car overheating when these problems happen? If so it could
be the alternator not working properly. This controls the power
steering as well as several other "niceties" that we have in our cars.
I had a ball bearing seize up on me which busted my belt and ended up
causing my alternator to not do its job. A ten dollar part caused my
power steering to go, the coolant to not travel, and many other things
to not work. I would check to make sure that is not bad. Take it in a
have it put through a bench check.

Christopher

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Josh - 27 Dec 2006 11:29 GMT

> Kevin,

If so it could

> be the alternator not working properly. This controls the power
> steering as well as several other "niceties" that we have in our cars.

Isnt the power steering run directly off the motor, from a pump? my
volvo runs mechanical power steering, it dies if the car stalls simply
because the motor isnt turning anymore, and therefor steering isnt
pumping.
The alternator just charges the battery, if the alternator was bad the
battery would go flat over time and the car would stall and wouldnt
start at all. If it starts just after the corner i'd say the
alternator is fine.
Its probably worth checking the wires going to and from the ignition
coil to make sure they arent intermittent, as well as the wires to the
fuel pump and relay

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Tim B - 06 Apr 2007 16:54 GMT

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> Kevin

I had a smiliar problem (stalling sometimes when turning at low speeds)with
my 95 Dodge Caravan. The cause was a ruptured diaphragm in the vacuum
controlled actuator for the egr. I discovered this by temporarily
disconnecting the vacuum line. When I did that, the problem went away.

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