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Hey guys PLEASE help i miss my Festiva. I have a 88 Festiva LX 5 speed. It was running great, only has 80,000 original miles on it, untill one day, boom nothing. It was the day before thanksgiving and i was running REALLY REALLY low on fuel, i was sputtering trying to get to a gas station, when the car just completely shut off, i figured it had run out of gas so i pulled in to a parking lot, pored what little gas i had into the carb and it started right up. I got gas and drove off but while i was driving, the car kept dieing, not sputtering like it was out of gas, but just cruising down the road then turn off almost like i had turn the key off, but then if i would start it, it would start back up. I figured i had got some crap in the lines from the bottom of the tank, or just air bubbles or something and it would work its way out. So the next night, thanksgiving, i was driving over to family's when boom it happened again, only this time it wouldn't start back up. Again i poured a little gas in the carb, but still wouldn't fire up. At that point i figured it wasn't getting spark. So i got it towed home and it just sat. Finally i got a chance to check it yesterday. I had just replaced the coil, cap, rotor, wires, and plugs just over a year ago, as preventative maintenance, so i was surprised to see when i pulled the rotor off that it was all burnt up. I tested to see if was getting power from the coil, yes i was, and if i was getting power from the coil wire, yes i was, but no spark to the plugs. i figure oh its just the rotor. I run down the Autozone and pick up a rotor, ($9.99, for some reason they didn't have a cap and rotor set or i would have picked up the cap too) when back home popped it in, and tried to fire it up, still nothing. Im thinking crap what the heck. i figure there must be something wrong with the cap too so i go back to Autozone and pick up a cap ($12.99) and some wires ($17.99) just in case. Come back, throw on the cap, still nothing. Im starting to get mad, i replace the wires, still nothing. Im getting pissed off now cause im just throwing money at it. I come inside get online and read up a little on it, find out it could be the ignition module. I call up Autozone, of course they don't have it, but they can order it for me for only $259!! what the heck i can get a whole distributor from them for only $150. I pulled the distributor out, check the module, nothing looks burt or broken wires, i clean the whole distributor really good put it back together and try to start it back up, still nothing. Please help i want to get the car running its a great car, is there some way to check to see if the module is indeed messed up, and if it is messed up is there some way to rebuild or an easy repair on it. OR, maybe is there a fuse some where that could have gone out? i check all the ones in the driver compartment and they are all good!
(P.S. on a side note, i have 3500 watts worth of stereo equipment in the car including 2500 just for the sub's. could i maybe shorted something out if i was listening to the music really loud, like overloaded something in the engine?)
(P.S. on a side note, i have 3500 watts worth of stereo equipment in the car including 2500 just for the sub's. could i maybe shorted something out if i was listening to the music really loud, like overloaded something in the engine?)
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