Ok, so my fox has been acting funny for a few weeks now and throwing a CEL. I HOPE I'm not speaking too soon, but I think I fixed the problem and thought I'd share so maybe it could benefit someone else.
For a while now the car has been dying when I stop at stop signs, throwing a check engine light that comes and goes and the other day I pulled it out to go for a ride and the engine would cut out for a split second-just fall on it's butt and then bounce right back like nothing happened. It did it about ten times in ten miles. I noticed when it happened, the tach would smack the bottom at 0 then bounce back to 3500 (or whatever rpm It happened at) immediately, like a loss of power thing.
I had pulled the code a while back and it was #19- no power to processor. this made no sense to me. I thought geez, that's stupid, how would it run if it had no power to processor? A voltage drop never occured to me.
Yesterday at work I was talking with a friend that had a fox and sold it. he said it had died and refused to start, but the guy he sold it to fixed it in 15 minutes. Bad ignition switch. The guy said these cars are notorious for bad ignition switches and drove techs crazy with intermittent problems.
So, It all made sense then. I swapped it out last night and no more dying, CEL, or cutting out. LOL. Stupid switch.
Hope this Helps somebody!
For a while now the car has been dying when I stop at stop signs, throwing a check engine light that comes and goes and the other day I pulled it out to go for a ride and the engine would cut out for a split second-just fall on it's butt and then bounce right back like nothing happened. It did it about ten times in ten miles. I noticed when it happened, the tach would smack the bottom at 0 then bounce back to 3500 (or whatever rpm It happened at) immediately, like a loss of power thing.
I had pulled the code a while back and it was #19- no power to processor. this made no sense to me. I thought geez, that's stupid, how would it run if it had no power to processor? A voltage drop never occured to me.
Yesterday at work I was talking with a friend that had a fox and sold it. he said it had died and refused to start, but the guy he sold it to fixed it in 15 minutes. Bad ignition switch. The guy said these cars are notorious for bad ignition switches and drove techs crazy with intermittent problems.
So, It all made sense then. I swapped it out last night and no more dying, CEL, or cutting out. LOL. Stupid switch.
Hope this Helps somebody!