850 still hesitating dying after additional repairs not wanting to leave a thread without conclusions ( unfortunately for me this is just an update) My R after a lot of repairs, testing, swapping is still hesitating and dying. It is running better when not dying or hesitating. OH Its still throwing ...

i installed a new battery (warrantied the old one) and tried to check for a draw using the multimeter set to mA milli amps and found it to be .002 which i think is ok. there may be a drop off between the alt and battery when the car is hot of .2 i might add a thicker cable. I dont think this would c...

Friday night I took the battery out and charged it overnight for about 7 hours on a portable charger at the 10 amp setting. the next morning after unplugging the charger the volt meter said there was 12.8 volts between pos and neg terminals. after installing the battery back into the car the voltage...

Jimmy thank you for your reply. Since your reply the short term fuel trims are no longer reading. the o2 sensor has stopped fluctuating as much and the ltft froze again at 21.1 Very annoying. so perhaps it wasn't a coincidence that the three readings above started coming to life after i charged the ...

good progress maybe issues solved. please read question about charging system at the end. on friday i pulled over to make a couple of cell phone calls. I shut the motor off, mistakenly left the lights on, and with my cell phone plugged into the cig lighter made some calls. I think about 20 minutes m...

good progress maybe issues solved. please read question about charging system at the end. on friday i pulled over to make a couple of cell phone calls. I shut the motor off, mistakenly left the lights on, and with my cell phone plugged into the cig lighter made some calls. I think about 20 minutes m...

90% there on friday i pulled over to make a couple of cell phone calls. I shut the motor off, mistakenly left the lights on, and with my cell phone plugged into the cig lighter made some calls. I think about 20 minutes maybe 30 went by when I tried to start the car and found the battery had died. i ...

Ok well yesterday I had a dead battery. I parked shut the car off. Left the lights on Had the key in the on position cell phone plugged into the cigarette lighter adapter. Made a few phone calls. Not sure how long I was in the car I think it was 20 minutes maybe half an hour. And bingo Dead battery ...

jblackburn thank you for your reply. Can you tell me a couple of things. 1) why upon reset is the longterm fuel trims showing as Positive 21 vs starting at 0. 2) upon reset no short term fuel trim readings.well actually it has had a brief reading three times. This morning when i first hooked up the ...

In another post i had a problem where my 850 was stuttering and dying where warm. After replacing the hose to the throttle body and tightening the loose intake manifold bolts seems to have fixed the stuttering and dying problem my 850 was having. i hope that starting this new thread was the correct ...