Well heres the dealie-o, Thurs. it snowed for the first time up to 10 inchs. i didnt have any traction at All cause i still had my 17' performace street tires on. i almost made it home (1/2 a block) and i get stuck. i try digging the snow from the tires, pushing it, rocking back and forward in Rev. and Drive. Suddenly the car losses power and DIES......theres nothing i can do. after 3 trys i get it started and i end up swing the car around in a 180 and it dies again. not knowing if i could be killing my battery restarting it each time, i leave it and walk the rest of the way home. Friday, the streets are pretty clear (alittle) and the car starts up fine. i take it for a test drive and on the highway it starts shaking like mad. i get back on the reguler streets and it stops shaking at 40mph. later on in the day, i do a few running around and now its time to get some new factory rims for this snow. i get a little ways too the tire shop and the car just shuts off Again. this time it wont start back up. so i throw it into Neutral and push it as far as i can and walk the rest of the way( 100feet or more). i get in to see first if they can do a battery test but the line was really long so i go back to see for my self. everything seems fine as far as i can tell but i know its not...... i try to start it once more and Bingo its running. i get my tires on and they say the battery was fine and it was a fluk . so im on my way home and what do u know..... Thats right, it dies. i start it back up so im not blocking traffic get to the next stop light and it dies again. this time i noticed the RMPs kinda just drop and try to rise agian before it went. so i figured if i keep one foot on the brake and the other on the gas a stop lights it wont die. -YEP- dosnt die but 1 time on the way home.

I know this was kinda long, but im stomped... i've kinda narrowed it down to being bad gas, frozen fuel lines, or a dirty dizzy cap. but i have know idea, my car has never acted this way. the only thing new done to the car was a new Alternator. i check for any codes the car maybe throing but there were none. any ideas as to whats going on???

 

u could be sucking melted snow through the intake we all know water is not a good thing. heres one more little trick pull the distributor cap off and check to see if the little screw that holds the rotor in place has fallin out. "i have seen this happen. and last but not least we serviced a mini van that was having battery problems but held a charge every time we later diagnosed that one of the cells must have a short in it that when vechicle was moving it was shorting out later replaced battery and it ran perfectly ever since.
hope this helps good luck

 

WoW your right!! yesterday i did the little check ups i mentioned... took off the distributor cap and the rotor came falling right out with a bunch of little plastic parts from that little black cover. thats amazing u would even think of something like that (i love this site ) luckly i found the little screw for it cause it came felling out too. I took everything inside and cleaned if up and made sure nothing was damaged. i got it back on and everything was perfect. but i went and got a new rotor just in case (didnt want that happening again) the new one was a nice tighter fit, so i know its not going anywhere now plus i tighten that silly screw on Good thanks alot