Help with 1997 Cavalier, Stalling?

Question

I have 1997 cavalier, a few days ago I was driving and turning out of a parking lot just after leaving a wedding. Right when I got to the end of the lot my car died. No power no breaks no nothing. I had to put the emergency break on to prevent going into a house.
I took to shop they said nothing wrong....b/c since then has been fine? So any ideas or suggestions?

Please help!

Answer 1

Probably the fuel pressure dropped. This is typical for a dying fuel pump and may or may not reoccur beofre it finally dies. They can check the fuel pressure.

Other thing would be the A/C compressor running low on freon and it created just enough drag to stall the engine when you kicked it on when leaving the party. They can check the freon volume and pressures as well.

Good Luck!

Answer 2

Probably a bad battery connection or a bad ground to the frame. The smaller cars will not run without a good connection to the battery, and sometimes the battery will have a bad connection cause a stall and the draw from the engine will cause the contacts to weld back together a little and it will run until it loses that little bit of contact. Clean the battery connections and reconnect the battery. If that does not work then you need to check your ground.

Answer 3

could have got a spike in the electrical system that tripped the circuit breaker (they are self reseting) a piece of dirt got in the fuel line (or water) and cleared itself or i just want to be a pain syndrome if you are starting to get noise from the right side of the engine then you could have a bearing going out on of the componets that run via the belt or a corroded wire someplace but unless it happens again dont sweat

Answer 4

If this just happened once, then it could of been just a fluke or bad gas. When a car stalls, you will not have power steering or power brakes. YOU STILL DO have steering and brakes but they are really hard, you must use a lot of strength to use them.