My car "cut out" while I was taking a hill.

[Hundred44Spokes]

Well....I was taking a very slight incline and everything was going fine, until I got up to about 4000 RPM (Or so I would assume) and all of a sudden I was no longer accelerating and just kind of coasting. Any ideas? It's a 2001 LS V6.

 

[HyeLifeLS]

engine accelerating, or the tranny cut off??

 

[napoleon1072]

If your rpms kept going up while your were stepping on the gas but your car started slowing down i'd point towards your transmission, that's what happened on my conti

 

[Hundred44Spokes]

If your rpms kept going up while your were stepping on the gas but your car started slowing down i'd point towards your transmission, that's what happened on my conti

Well I don't know if my RPMs were going up, I'm just basing it on the sound of my engine I wasn't physically looking.

 

[HyeLifeLS]

so did the sound change? Like did the engine continue building speed or it cut off like there is not enough fuel or so. Might be something with tranny or coils or bad fuel pump.

 

[lseguy]

coil pack about to fail.

 

[Hundred44Spokes]

coil pack about to fail.

About how much does that run? And do I need to get it fixed immediately?

 

[lseguy]

About how much does that run? And do I need to get it fixed immediately?

Sorry...you'd get more info by doing a search on this forum on "coils" or "coilpacks" or "stumbling", etc. They cost from $35 to about $60 per coil, assuming it's the coil.

 

[97stscaddy]

How long before the power came back? And did it do it again?

 

[HyeLifeLS]

If it's the coils than change all 6 or 8 of them to save yourself the headache. I had first time 2 coils go bad at 100,200 miles. I changed all coils and all spark plugs. Now I have 136,200 no problems with em.

 

[Jim Henderson]

How full was your gas tank? Were you doing a tight turn?

On a different car, I used to have this problem whenever I had less than say 1/3 tank of gas and drove home thru some twisty mountain roads. If I was driving hard and coincidentally took an uphill sharp curve, sometimes the engine would cut out. Turned out that the fuel sloshes out of reach of the pickup and you starve the engine.

If this is your problem, the fix is expensive, just fill up the tank with $3/ gallon gas.

Good Luck,

Jim Henderson

 

[Hundred44Spokes]

How full was your gas tank? Were you doing a tight turn?

On a different car, I used to have this problem whenever I had less than say 1/3 tank of gas and drove home thru some twisty mountain roads. If I was driving hard and coincidentally took an uphill sharp curve, sometimes the engine would cut out. Turned out that the fuel sloshes out of reach of the pickup and you starve the engine.

If this is your problem, the fix is expensive, just fill up the tank with $3/ gallon gas.

Good Luck,

Jim Henderson

I actually was coming back from filling up with the 3 dollar gas. And unfortunately, I was going straight. Thanks though.

How long before the power came back? And did it do it again?

It was only a couple seconds and it didn't do it again. Actually thinking back this has happened before, I just didn't think much of it.