use carb and choke cleaner for the vacume hoses, works the same way. electrical stuff is a pain in the butt. My old cadillac has electrical problems which only emerge in the winter....Ive been trying to trace them down sice I got the car but it seems whever I or a trained proffesional inspect the car theres nothing wrong with it. good luck finding the problem


and no, theese cars werent built to be crap, your thinking of the ford contour

I looked all over my visors and nothing is noticeably damaged :(

Brian, I assume that you removed the mounting screws and pulled the visors and wiring down from the mounts to inspect for damage?

Glenn

and I have to agree with Eric. My car is not crap. :mad:

You need to really look at the wires.

I will go along with others and say that none of my cars are crap either. :(

So if mine are disconnected I should reconnect them?

If you unplug them, you are ok. It is when they short out that you have problems. :)

DID you check all the coils?? Is the car running on all 6 cylinders>?

You may want to PM SVXcess (John). I don't remember the exact symptoms he experienced with his '95, but it had an electrical problem that a number of mechanics could only scratch their heads about. The problem was finally traced to a feeder wire under or buried in the fusebox that appeared to be a factory defect. The wire appeared "crushed", & I believe the insulation finally deteriorated to the point of creating goofy problems. The fusebox had to be replaced, but the agony ceased.

Ron.

The one under the hood? (are there two?)
Thanks I'll dig around there because even after my exhaust fix, the car still randomly sputters and stalls while stopped.

If it really only acts up while at a stop or idle it would seem to me like a vaccum leak or a leaky intake gasket. Are there any electrical happenings that would suggest otherwise??

Tom

[QUOTE=Ricochet]The one under the hood? (are there two?)

Yup...it's the only one that I'm familiar with.

Ron.

There is another one behind the kick pannel too. :)

(I think) :confused:

It only completely dies while I'm stopped, but hesitates sometimes while driving too.. It feels like a fuel cut or something.

I haven't finished reading this thread yet, but I wanted to chime in with my experience.

I don't trust auto parts shops when it comes to 'testing' alternators and batteries. I've had them tell me an alternator was perfectly fine, then I've gone home and replaced it with another and had the problems solved.

Those shops only 'test' an alternator for 4-5 seconds, so they'll easily miss an intermittent problem or one caused by heat.

My only point is that I wouldn't implicitly trust an alternator just because a shop 'tested' it. I wouldn't rule it out.

That being said, I do want to agree with both Nik and Todd on their different points. Nik reminded you that the car is 14 years old. It's new to you, but it's not new in the least. It's going to need care. And I also think Todd had a good suggestion in the vacuum lines. They're all over the place, they're of different sizes and some are very hard to get to.

Yeah agreed. I always seem to think im driving a new car sometimes so when something goes wrong i get extra pissed off. But then i think about it and im like this is a 13 year old car so things are going to break and go wrong. And thats exactly why im taking care of all the routine maintanence before i start to auto-x it :D