{"id":1411,"date":"2006-07-15T08:54:16","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2006-07-31T13:18:59","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T18:18:59","slug":"pt-saga-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/pt-saga-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"PT Saga Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First let me say that I love my PT Cruiser. I&#8217;ve had it for over 5 years; it is a first year Cruiser. During that time I&#8217;ve only had a few minor repairs and not serious callbacks.<br \/>\nThen the stalling when the engine is hot started.<br \/>\nThe occurance of the problem preceded my 60K mile maintenance by only 24 hours so I added a look at the stall to the scheduled maintenace. The 60K is a pretty big deal in which all the spark plugs, wires, hoses etc are replaced or at least checked. The guess of the service guys was that the PT had gunk built up in the throttle housing (?) and that in  the heat the gunk became fluid enough to ooze down and cut off the flow. No trouble. Just clean it out.<br \/>\nI pick up the car and drive a bit. The stall is back &#8212; or more properly never left.<br \/>\n[inserting forgetten visit here]<br \/>\nI take it back to Chrysler. They have found a tech bulletin of some sort. They download new soft\/firmware in to the car&#8217;s mind. That should fix it.<br \/>\nIn the mean time, Sally&#8217;s car, an older Saturn, was stalling too. Her problem was related to the EGR valve.<br \/>\nThe PT, even with it&#8217;s new brain download, stalls again and again. Some symptoms: fine until driven about 15 or 20 miles in the heat. Then beware on stoplights.<br \/>\nThe Chrysler guys next speculated that the problem was the fuel pump. My choices: Drive around with a pressure recorder on the fuel line or Just go ahead and replace the pump.<br \/>\nWe replaced the pump. Not cheap  but effective or so it seems.<br \/>\nNo more stalling &#8212; so far.<br \/>\nThursday I drove the PT about 4 blocks and the Check Engine Light lit up. Finally some data for the poor mechanics. During all the stalling there was no Check Engine and no data or alerts generated.<br \/>\nNow we have something for them to look at.<br \/>\nMore on Monday.<br \/>\n[insert Saturday stall outs]<br \/>\nSo I take the first good medium length drive today. Over to Durham to hear Barry Varela read from his new novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1596430737\/\">Palmer&#8217;s Gate<\/a> at the Regulator. I get almost to 9th Street when I hit a stoplight. The car stalls.<br \/>\nI am cursed in several different languages as I try to restart the car even though I have the e-blinkers on and am in the rightmost lane.<br \/>\nFinally, as usual, the PT restarts. I get to the reading a little late, but I do get there.<br \/>\nAfter the reading and good talks with friends, I get in the PT. Starts fine. Drives fine. All the way to Chapel Hill. Until I try to turn off 51-501 onto Morgan Creek. Stall again. Yikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First let me say that I love my PT Cruiser. I&#8217;ve had it for over 5 years; it is a first year Cruiser. During that time I&#8217;ve only had a few minor repairs and not serious callbacks. Then the stalling when the engine is hot started. The occurance of the problem preceded my 60K mile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","category-pt-saga","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}