Aurie

Um yah I brought her into Carr subaru and they were 98% sure it was throttle body so we replaced the injector and she doesn't die anymore. She does still wallow a bit and have a wierd sputtering idle, but she doesn't die. My hubby had cleaned the injector when this first started and it didn't seem to make difference. We originally said throttle body or fuel. It must have been something on the electrical side I guess. Anywho, mostly fixed, no more chugging, now just a bit of wallowing but that gets over comed by the car upon warming up (you floor it right after starting the car and going and she's like eeyore then after a couple seconds she's like OH RIGHT.. I'm a CAR! and runs like a champ)

My car did that in the rear and it was the ball bearing. The idiot at the shop who repaired it put a small curved plate in backwards enabling all the grease to go spitting out and I had to have it towed home. It's scary when it happens, but as long as you got it home whatever it is should be visable. Best of luck!

Normally I'd do this too, but the other day it kicked me in the pants after 4 hours of solid delivery driving. I almost face planted on the steering wheel and so I took it straight home and its been doing it ever since, warm, cold, just, DIES .. Today I took her to the dealer. I had enough. She died to the point that her power steering went out and when I restarted her everything was back up and running and i floored her all the way to the dealership. Who had the last laugh then!?!? Aurie

I"m sorry to open an older thread, but after June my car stopped doing this and I couldn't get a video. Funny enough being june it warmed up and I didn't have this problem ALL SUMMER. Once the colder air settled in I noticed my car doing this again and now it's been doing it all winter. I drive delivery for Dominos and on my way to work I fight the car but once I get to work and delivery drive (sometimes up to 80 miles a day) she doesn't do this on my shift at work. 90% of the time it's when I've just started her up. I was finally able to get a smart phone and a video camera on it to enable a video to be taken. No Check Engine Lights via video, (8 blinks normally) but one did surface right before christmas '11 for the charcoal canister and we just replaced that right before the video was shot 2 days ago. She was so bad and I was mad so I drove my husbands 91 Isuzu Trooper delivery driving much to my wallet's dismay. I'm at my whits end. Is anyone in the Portland Oregon area that could suggest a good mechanic because my husband who is VERY knowledgeable about this car is stumped! Suggestions? Here's my video BTW Aurie

new spark plugs, air filter, and oil change.. w00t! Next month.. DEQ! (emissions)

This is a video of SOMEONE elses car on Youtube and I thought, maybe someone had the same issue as me.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPmA0I2lLc4 Anywho - his car does it more often, mine will do this within a couple seconds of starting.. and die usually pretty quick then might not do it again for a minute.. but you can see if she does this while you're driving, it'd KICK (like fluttering the gas to tell your drunk friends they better pay for their gas ) When she kicks like that, I almost kiss the steering wheel and when you have panic attacks like I do, I almost want to turn around and not go to work The colder the morning, the worse she is.. I checked her timing, she's right on!

I think it's the same car, I just remembered the car I saw had a 7 in the grill, taking up all the space (very similar to the superman logo) .. He just called it a Super 7..

Isn't that a Super 7? I saw one that was practically brand new here in Oregon the guy had imported from Britan. I have a picture of it on my phone

Oh dear, I was going to post here the other day, but I work 2 jobs and threw out my back doing the work on the car, and kinda forgot.. here's an update I went out and bought some NGK Platinum plugs, and installed them. I also got a new air filter and did an oil change. I also topped off all her fluids. She seems to have her power back, she doesn't wallow while driving nearly as much, since I did her MAS (going around a corner and giving it gas) .. She hiccup'd 2x at me this morning, I just floored it and didn't care much if it did it again (I was running late for work). Her problem is NOT a vacume leak from a hose, I doused all hose connections with carb cleaner and it didn't change. It just idles wierd.. like it's still lacking power. We havn't completly ruled out the EGR or IAC yet. I found a video on youtube of someone elses car doing almost the same exact thing. Tonight I'll post the link (I'm at work right now and can't get to youtube) .. Or I'll make my own video from my camera. Now that the weather has gotten warmer, I don't see it being as much of an issue till the weather gets colder.

Thanks heartless, I'll run that by my hubby and see if that's something we've replaced. I'll take any suggestions at this point. Started her at 10am today, not a single attempt at dying.. was 55 degrees outside Will check my spark plugs tomorrow after work, since it'll be about 85 degrees outside... mmm nice days are finally here! I bought some NGK Platinums, and some Boche wires (god the subaru dealers want over $125 for wires here.. eek, I'm not made of gold!)

My husband used cork and grey.. not 1 drop leaked.

My front left CV boot ripped and I didn't notice and when it was apparently unhappy with it's current situation it started making the "clicking" noise. The wierd part about it was that it was after going over a railroad track it clicked like cards in bicycle spokes (going straight) but even though I coasted home (I was about 2 blocks away) it did it gas or no gas. Minekee said it was either the CV or the ball bearings.. I took the CV option and they replaced it, problem solved (I chose correctly) The wierd thing is, it never acted like a traditional CV.. it did it straight or turning.. getting louder and faster the faster I went. Sometimes it's not what you think

I have tried connecting the white and greens together at the same time, tried starting the car, on .. off.. etc with different combo's and the codes remain. This Sat night I'm going to take the terminals off all night (as suggested) to see if that clears them Cold as in 7:30am (maybe 40-50 degrees) and noon (60ish?) This has been going on a solid 6 months, off and on late in the day, almost every single morning After all the crap she gave me today, my hubby got in and drove her away at 10:30am not a cough or sputter to be heard *super mad face* When you crank her to first start, she starts within 2 seconds .. stays running for about 3 seconds, then starts her "crap" .. she's also low idling when she does it.. if (on my way to work) I stop to get gas.. when she's in park she super high idles (usually by then she's stopped doing her thing) What makes this hard to diagnose, is that she doesn't always do it, sometimes I get in the car, and she's fine .. I don't mind giving her a general tuneup. Last summer she got a new rear/front oil seal and many new other seals. I don't think we messed up anything during that time, because April '10 she did this one day, and didn't do it again till maybe December? In april she'd do it if I went over 55mph, now she'll do it now matter how much gas I give her. I'm not getting the tell tale "sound" of a misfire, nor any backfire.

Ok I will pick up some on my way home. That is something I myself can do (and feel proud about it too ) anywho - if you can think of anything else (esp cheap options) I'm willing to try them out or at least comment on it. Anything you can think of why the ECM won't clear her codes? Is this common? I left the battery disconnected for 2 hours when we were messing with her Throttle Position Sensor. My hubby and I are also (hopefully soon) going to fully replace her EGR system. He messed with that once and when he was testing it the car acted like it currently does.. I screamed "THATS IT!" but you know how women can be.. we always think we know the answer Aurie Your paticence and support are appreciated lots and lots!