Hi,
I've been through a lot with my Protege, changing a couple of starters, fuel pumps, a water leak...
Now a "new" problem (trying to figure it out for a good time by now) appeared and need some advice.
The car had problems to start after the starter went bad (the car only 'clicked' but nothing else), it was fixed and I continued to use the car as normal, I drive mostly really short distances to college and back and some other errands. However, the car has shut off randomly while I drive or not starting.
I had a similar problem before with a bad pump but when it shutted down it was more a stall thing, now it just shuts down without warning. Thinking it was the same case as before the fuel pressure was tested but it was normal, dueing this test the car shut off but started right away.
I took the car to a scaner (for the port in the engine bay as it doesn't have OBD port under the dash), this showed an old code for the O2 sensor. But they found that the alternator was producing 15-16volts (confirmed with multimeter). Before that I had already changed both bulbs. Could be that the bad alternator is the cause of the random shutts downs? Any help is appreciated
Forgot to say that I already checked the connections on the alternator and they look good
I've been through a lot with my Protege, changing a couple of starters, fuel pumps, a water leak...
Now a "new" problem (trying to figure it out for a good time by now) appeared and need some advice.
The car had problems to start after the starter went bad (the car only 'clicked' but nothing else), it was fixed and I continued to use the car as normal, I drive mostly really short distances to college and back and some other errands. However, the car has shut off randomly while I drive or not starting.
I had a similar problem before with a bad pump but when it shutted down it was more a stall thing, now it just shuts down without warning. Thinking it was the same case as before the fuel pressure was tested but it was normal, dueing this test the car shut off but started right away.
I took the car to a scaner (for the port in the engine bay as it doesn't have OBD port under the dash), this showed an old code for the O2 sensor. But they found that the alternator was producing 15-16volts (confirmed with multimeter). Before that I had already changed both bulbs. Could be that the bad alternator is the cause of the random shutts downs? Any help is appreciated
Forgot to say that I already checked the connections on the alternator and they look good