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Crapwagon stalled out with the oil light on a highway offramp

PingSpike

PingSpike

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I was driving home last night in the rain in my 99 dodge neon and after passing a few cars I had to stop on a long offramp from the highway. The car started idling weird/rough and I could feel a stall coming on...but I was stuck in traffic. Right when the car in front of me finally moved, the car died with the oil pressure light illuminated. The car has a slow oil leak so I thought "great, did it dump all the oil or something and now my engine is hosed?"

I know you're not suppose to drive it, but I was blocking like 50 cars and frankly I was raging so I started it anyway, pulled off and shut the car off. (I couldn't roll it back to the side of the road since I had cars behind me) I checked the oil and it was fine, wasn't even low. Coolant looked ok too. So I started it up and drove back home (about 10 miles) without further incident.

Any idea what the hell is going on? I've had the car stall once in horribly cold january temperatures at a stop light when the engine was still pretty cold and once the car lost all electric power (no power steering or stereo, engine still running until I pulled over and stopped car) while I was just driving down the road. Both times the car started right back up and didn't really give me any trouble ever again.

I don't know a ton about cars. At this point my best guess is it was a fluke...water splashed on something and shorted it? No idea.
 
As already said, it sounds like water got into the engine bay and caused an issue with the ignition. (if it was a wet day)
I would also replace your spark plugs and wires, distributor cap & rotor if it has one. See if it will idle smooth now.
It sure seems like an ignition related issue. Possibly dirty fuel injectors also.
 
Considering that it is still September, cold probably isn't a factor. I'd suggest checking your fuel system. I kept having similar type stalls in my 97 cavalier to where I could restart and continue to drive on. Turns out the fuel pump wasn't giving the kind of pressure needed, but was nonetheless still working. Try going and getting your ODB2 codes pulled. They may tell you something.
 
Originally posted by: Spicedaddy
yeah, probably water in your ignition system. (coil, wires, plugs...)
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If it is water on the plugs coil or wires a little wd40 will do the trick. It will evaporate all the water in a matter of minutes if not sooner.
 
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