I was on my way home from work last night, and going up the on ramp getting onto the highway, the engine briefly died. I'm not sure what my speed was at the time, maybe 40 or 50 mph. I saw a red box on the dash below the speedo or tach (I'm not sure which) light up.
I had just enough time to think, "oh s$#$!" It was cold, in the upper teens yesterday afternoon and I really didn't want to spend a lot of time outside or in a non-functional car. And then the engine started running again and it was flawless the rest of the way home.
I didn't see a check engine light come on. I didn't have time to depress the clutch pedal. Or do anything else. Basically I lost power, looked down at the dash and then power came back and I cautiously continued driving.
I recently had my second dealer oil change, so when I got home I opened the hood and checked oil and just generally looked around the engine compartment. Oil level is fine and there wasn't anything else I saw that looked out of place.
My assumption is that the car has a flaw in the electrical harness. There was a brief loss of connection between two critical components that caused the ignition to malfunction for a short amount of time. The disconnection must have been brief enough that the ECU was continuing to try to run the engine, and since the momentum of the car kept the engine turning - once the connection was restored, the ignition resumed firing and the engine started running again as though nothing had happened.
I didn't get a backfire or anything, so it's possible that no raw fuel was dumped down the exhaust. However, I had only run the engine for a few minutes at the time this occurred, so it's possible that any extra fuel just burned off gradually.
Anyone else have something like this happen to them? What was the resolution, if any? I think I will call the dealership, but since there was no check engine light I'm not sure whether a code would have been set.
I had just enough time to think, "oh s$#$!" It was cold, in the upper teens yesterday afternoon and I really didn't want to spend a lot of time outside or in a non-functional car. And then the engine started running again and it was flawless the rest of the way home.
I didn't see a check engine light come on. I didn't have time to depress the clutch pedal. Or do anything else. Basically I lost power, looked down at the dash and then power came back and I cautiously continued driving.
I recently had my second dealer oil change, so when I got home I opened the hood and checked oil and just generally looked around the engine compartment. Oil level is fine and there wasn't anything else I saw that looked out of place.
My assumption is that the car has a flaw in the electrical harness. There was a brief loss of connection between two critical components that caused the ignition to malfunction for a short amount of time. The disconnection must have been brief enough that the ECU was continuing to try to run the engine, and since the momentum of the car kept the engine turning - once the connection was restored, the ignition resumed firing and the engine started running again as though nothing had happened.
I didn't get a backfire or anything, so it's possible that no raw fuel was dumped down the exhaust. However, I had only run the engine for a few minutes at the time this occurred, so it's possible that any extra fuel just burned off gradually.
Anyone else have something like this happen to them? What was the resolution, if any? I think I will call the dealership, but since there was no check engine light I'm not sure whether a code would have been set.
