dba
Active LVC Member
hello. 2003 Lincoln LS V8 here. Here's the problem. The car starts and runs just fine when it is cold (the engine temp.) but once the engine warms it will just randomly die. It doesn't make any weird noises or anything...it just dies. like somebody turned the key. But here's where it gets weird. After dying, it will start right back up with no fuss at all and run for a while.....until it dies again, but after it dies it starts right back up.
Not sure if this is related or not, but a while ago I was on the road with it and it broke down. At first it felt like it downshifted hard...but then it did that same sort of hard downshift feeling again and again and pretty soon it was was constantly doing this. I still had the gas depressed so it was accelerating and then stalling so I was getting thrown around in the car from this. Is this confusing? I'll sum it up....Basically car started stalling and then regaining power repeatedly and ever more frequently until it finally just died. Waited 1 1/2 hours to be towed 20min back home .
To Recap:
Car runs fine when cold but once it warms up it will abruptly die like someone turned the key off. It starts right back up but after a while it will die again.
It has new valve cover gaskets
New mass air flow sensor
New battery
New throttle body in '08
New thermostat in '08 too
New coolant hoses
New Catalytic Converters
All fuses are working
The car normally sounds like this. Is this normal??
So then whatever issue it was having got worse and now it sounds like a dying cat AND THEN it dies. heres that...
Has anyone had a similar problem? I'm desperate for help!!
Not sure if this is related or not, but a while ago I was on the road with it and it broke down. At first it felt like it downshifted hard...but then it did that same sort of hard downshift feeling again and again and pretty soon it was was constantly doing this. I still had the gas depressed so it was accelerating and then stalling so I was getting thrown around in the car from this. Is this confusing? I'll sum it up....Basically car started stalling and then regaining power repeatedly and ever more frequently until it finally just died. Waited 1 1/2 hours to be towed 20min back home .
To Recap:
Car runs fine when cold but once it warms up it will abruptly die like someone turned the key off. It starts right back up but after a while it will die again.
It has new valve cover gaskets
New mass air flow sensor
New battery
New throttle body in '08
New thermostat in '08 too
New coolant hoses
New Catalytic Converters
All fuses are working
The car normally sounds like this. Is this normal??
So then whatever issue it was having got worse and now it sounds like a dying cat AND THEN it dies. heres that...
Has anyone had a similar problem? I'm desperate for help!!