My 420SEL Died while i was driving!!!!
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My 420SEL Died while i was driving!!!!
My 1987 420SEL just died 2day while on the road. good thing it died in the city and not on the freeway or i would of been in trouble.
it all started after i filled up the tank wit gas...after like 10 mins of driving the CD player suddenly shuts off, i was like whats going on...then like 30 seconds later the the RPM meter is just jumping all over the place and i could feel a major power loss while in the car. Good thing i bumped into one of my friends while i pulled on the side of the road to see what the problem was. after getting a quick jump my car seem to be alright after like 10mins the car suddenly dies again..this time died at a stop. then i did another jump and drove like a few blocks and died again. the problem seem like if im not stepping on the gas the car suddenly dies. then my car dies a few more times while trying to get to Firestone. i think i jumped started my car 15-20 times in that 1 hour. at stop lights i had to step on brakes and gas at the same time....after awhile alot of smoke started coming from under the car.... and some guy on the road started screaming at me that my car was on fire...so i quickly come of my car n look underneath...looked like at plastic bag caught on fire under my car or sumthing...after the fire went out i jumped the car again and drove it to Firestone to check the car out. they told me i had to leave it over night cause they were closing when i got there. i'll update yalls on the problem when they give me a call.
Have anyone here had this kind of problem on their 1987 420SEL? or know whats wrong?
Thanks
-Greg
it all started after i filled up the tank wit gas...after like 10 mins of driving the CD player suddenly shuts off, i was like whats going on...then like 30 seconds later the the RPM meter is just jumping all over the place and i could feel a major power loss while in the car. Good thing i bumped into one of my friends while i pulled on the side of the road to see what the problem was. after getting a quick jump my car seem to be alright after like 10mins the car suddenly dies again..this time died at a stop. then i did another jump and drove like a few blocks and died again. the problem seem like if im not stepping on the gas the car suddenly dies. then my car dies a few more times while trying to get to Firestone. i think i jumped started my car 15-20 times in that 1 hour. at stop lights i had to step on brakes and gas at the same time....after awhile alot of smoke started coming from under the car.... and some guy on the road started screaming at me that my car was on fire...so i quickly come of my car n look underneath...looked like at plastic bag caught on fire under my car or sumthing...after the fire went out i jumped the car again and drove it to Firestone to check the car out. they told me i had to leave it over night cause they were closing when i got there. i'll update yalls on the problem when they give me a call.
Have anyone here had this kind of problem on their 1987 420SEL? or know whats wrong?
Thanks
-Greg
