So I'm at work driving easy with my boss when suddenly my car loses power. RPM's won't go over 500 and once at a stop the engine dies. I can get it to start but it again will not take gas and go over 500 RPM.
After 15 uncomfortable min I call for a roll back and a cab. I get my boss back to work and stop by the local shop,(Not a Lincoln shop) and I wanted to talk with the guy about checking fuel pressure. When I walk in the guy has a scanner on the car and says I can't find any codes, and I didn't find any problems, ,, well except that little thing.
I ask what that was and the mechanic starts to tell the story almost like he doesn't belive that what he had found was really a problem at all,,,
He says I would start the car and it would only run at 500 RPMS and the other guy in the shop said I hear a clicking up in the air intake. They take the intake tube off and find that my air filter was dirty and there was a small bug stuck on (what he called) my mass air flow sensor. He took the bug off and put a clean filter in and the car starts and runs great!
In discussions back and forth we come to the conclution (right or wrong) that the bug was between two electrodes and causing a 1) disruption in the air flow or 2) caused some sort of a short.
So I take the LS out to a straight section of state road and she runs straight up to 135mph and I think its fixed!
So is it really possible that a small bug caused my $37,000 car to go down? I am thinking that my Lincoln dealer didn't get my air box on correctly cause they asked me if I wanted to change my filter and I declined as I was gonna do a K&N set up.
I drove 25 miles home with no issues, but I am leaving out of state at the end of the month for vacation,,So I would be pleased to hear some (positive I hope) comments.
First time my car has been on a flatbed and I must say I didn't like it at all!! I was in the drivers way the whole time worried that he would break / scratch something.
After 15 uncomfortable min I call for a roll back and a cab. I get my boss back to work and stop by the local shop,(Not a Lincoln shop) and I wanted to talk with the guy about checking fuel pressure. When I walk in the guy has a scanner on the car and says I can't find any codes, and I didn't find any problems, ,, well except that little thing.
I ask what that was and the mechanic starts to tell the story almost like he doesn't belive that what he had found was really a problem at all,,,
He says I would start the car and it would only run at 500 RPMS and the other guy in the shop said I hear a clicking up in the air intake. They take the intake tube off and find that my air filter was dirty and there was a small bug stuck on (what he called) my mass air flow sensor. He took the bug off and put a clean filter in and the car starts and runs great!
In discussions back and forth we come to the conclution (right or wrong) that the bug was between two electrodes and causing a 1) disruption in the air flow or 2) caused some sort of a short.
So I take the LS out to a straight section of state road and she runs straight up to 135mph and I think its fixed!
So is it really possible that a small bug caused my $37,000 car to go down? I am thinking that my Lincoln dealer didn't get my air box on correctly cause they asked me if I wanted to change my filter and I declined as I was gonna do a K&N set up.
I drove 25 miles home with no issues, but I am leaving out of state at the end of the month for vacation,,So I would be pleased to hear some (positive I hope) comments.
First time my car has been on a flatbed and I must say I didn't like it at all!! I was in the drivers way the whole time worried that he would break / scratch something.