Code L, car suddenly stalls????? Help!!!!!
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Hi Guys,
this morning i drove in the city center of our beautifull Blackpool aan den Rijn in city-traffic, 30 degrees and -OK, I admit- after having been on the phone with the car running stationary for let's say a quarter of an hour. Of course i kept checking the temperatures but my airco works quite good and i wanted the cooling (for myself that is...)
after driving away and moving a few hundred yards it suddenly stalled signalling Code L (which means erratic speedo sensor) to be honest I don't know why that should have something to do with letting the engine running, but I am no technician.Am I wrong and is this sensor necessary to let the engine run?
I tried to start it a few times immediatley after this happened and it just seemed not to get enough fuel, so i first thought of vapour lock.
A friend of mine suggested that i might have drowned it because they don't like running stationary for such a lon time with such outside-temperatures, but I went there half an hour ago (left the car in the city-center all day, so of course i had a fine fine...;-) and it still did not start, so it can be that there is still too much fuel inside the cylinders.
but because of the still not starting i don't think it can be vapour lock.
or was it vapour lock initially, so stalled, tried to start several times, overfilled the combustion chambers with fuel and now still to much fuel in?
For the real technicians, as i hust tried, it turns around like a lunatic (so enough electricity still in the battery) but doesn't even give a little starting to run anymore, so not sure whether no sparks or no fuel. (may be because Code L and speedo sensor kills fuel and/or ignition???)
Help would be greatly appreciated, because this goes beyond normal car-technics for me....
Regards,
Dries
this morning i drove in the city center of our beautifull Blackpool aan den Rijn in city-traffic, 30 degrees and -OK, I admit- after having been on the phone with the car running stationary for let's say a quarter of an hour. Of course i kept checking the temperatures but my airco works quite good and i wanted the cooling (for myself that is...)
after driving away and moving a few hundred yards it suddenly stalled signalling Code L (which means erratic speedo sensor) to be honest I don't know why that should have something to do with letting the engine running, but I am no technician.Am I wrong and is this sensor necessary to let the engine run?
I tried to start it a few times immediatley after this happened and it just seemed not to get enough fuel, so i first thought of vapour lock.
A friend of mine suggested that i might have drowned it because they don't like running stationary for such a lon time with such outside-temperatures, but I went there half an hour ago (left the car in the city-center all day, so of course i had a fine fine...;-) and it still did not start, so it can be that there is still too much fuel inside the cylinders.
but because of the still not starting i don't think it can be vapour lock.
or was it vapour lock initially, so stalled, tried to start several times, overfilled the combustion chambers with fuel and now still to much fuel in?
For the real technicians, as i hust tried, it turns around like a lunatic (so enough electricity still in the battery) but doesn't even give a little starting to run anymore, so not sure whether no sparks or no fuel. (may be because Code L and speedo sensor kills fuel and/or ignition???)
Help would be greatly appreciated, because this goes beyond normal car-technics for me....
Regards,
Dries
The speed sensor is on the diff, it either needs replacing or cleaning, you can get to it by removing the offside rear wheel. Have a search for speed sensor there was a thread about it in the Tuscan forums a few days ago. Mine has the same fault at the moment and I am currently just bliping the throttal to keep the revs up until I can fix it.
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