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Old Feb 16, 2021 | 03:21 PM
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Did a couple of donuts and..

The weather in NYC is great today 55F so i went to a parking lot and pulled some donuts for probably 15-20sec. The car stalled while i was on throttle. I had 3 bars of fuel left so maybe the gravity did its thing and starved the motor from fuel? Haven't checked the ecu yet,but I have no codes on dash or limp mode.
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Old Feb 16, 2021 | 03:27 PM
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The weather in NYC is great today 55F so i went to a parking lot and pulled some donuts for probably 15-20sec. The car stalled while i was on throttle. I had 3 bars of fuel left so maybe the gravity did its thing and starved the motor from fuel? Haven't checked the ecu yet,but I have no codes on dash or limp mode.
Hmm yea thats possible... :-).
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Old Feb 16, 2021 | 03:38 PM
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You can also starve the engine of oil if you do donuts for any period of time unless the car has a dry dump system.
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Old Feb 16, 2021 | 04:15 PM
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You can also starve the engine of oil if you do donuts for any period of time unless the car has a dry dump system.
But not in 20 seconds?
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Old Feb 16, 2021 | 10:13 PM
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Never had that problem while doing donuts before changing tyres. I do it for a bout a minute straight lol
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Old Feb 16, 2021 | 10:52 PM
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Never had that problem while doing donuts before changing tyres. I do it for a bout a minute straight lol
with a full tank of fuel i assume
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Originally Posted by PaulC63s
The weather in NYC is great today 55F so i went to a parking lot and pulled some donuts for probably 15-20sec. The car stalled while i was on throttle. I had 3 bars of fuel left so maybe the gravity did its thing and starved the motor from fuel? Haven't checked the ecu yet,but I have no codes on dash or limp mode.
Did you turn off traction control completely? If you don't it'll stall when the car stops spinning. This happened to me before and it also happens if you're entering a steep driveway at an angle (to avoid scratching the front) if the car rocks back and forth and gets stuck for a moment or rolls back it will stall. It doesn't happen with traction completely off I've noticed so far.

Next time you do that just disable traction control altogether.

By the way, I'm talking about a PFL here. Don't know if this happens with FL though.

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Old Feb 17, 2021 | 12:26 AM
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Originally Posted by PaulC63s
The weather in NYC is great today 55F so i went to a parking lot and pulled some donuts for probably 15-20sec. The car stalled while i was on throttle. I had 3 bars of fuel left so maybe the gravity did its thing and starved the motor from fuel? Haven't checked the ecu yet,but I have no codes on dash or limp mode.
How did you check the ECU?
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Old Feb 17, 2021 | 09:41 AM
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Thats all im getting, idk why these codes even pop up the car is running perfectly fine without any problems, maybe its the cold and not driving the car frequently enough?🤷‍♂️🤔🤔

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Im pretty sure that it was fuel starvation in my case. When doing donuts the off center gravity will pull the fuel away from the pump and bubbles get in the line and the motor stalls. Next time i will make sure the tank is full before i start doing some shenanigans.
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