RE: 96 Cavalier issues with randomly not starting and stalling for the last 6 months

[katielyn84]

Hello,

I have a 96 cavalier that I have been driving for nearly 3 years. Since
decemeber of 2006 I have had issues with my car randomly not starting. My
father who Knows a fair bit about mechanics ran some of his own tests and
could not figure out what was wrong with it. We assumed that it was simply
some bad gas, cold weather or water in the tank cause by the cold winter.
Once the weather warmed up the problem continued. It would randomly not start
and if you went back an hour later it would start perfectly and run great.
WHen it wouldn't start it would sound like it was trying but nothing would
happen, would backfire a few times. Since March it has begun to stall while
driving. The first time I was doing 60km and the car shut off and wouldn't
start for 10 minutes. The second, third and forth time it occured between 40-
60 km. All the times this has happened the car had been driving for anywhere
between 20min to an hour.

We finally decided to take my car into a shop who has had it for almost two
months now off and on. It has taken so long because they have had to wait for
it to die on them as well. Finally it died for a week straight. They ran
numerous tests and still have no idea whats wrong with my car. The believe it
is something electric and they have also had some concerns about an anti-
theft system or my CD that was installed. They have not been able to locate
the anti-theft and they took out my CD player and they said everything looked
fine.

They have now asked me to take my car back and "break it" for them as they
are unable to get it to stall or not start again. I drove it for less than 15
minutes and it stalled on me 5 times but i was always able to restart it.

If anyone can help me that would be great. I can handle this anymore. My
mother and I have been attempting to share her car for the last 4 months but
this will no longer work.

Thanks,
Katie