My roadmaster drives great. But at a slower speed, I will tap the gas and the whole car shuts off and has to be jumped, I cant figure out why. Help!!
What is your question?
It usually happens at a slower speed (10-30mph). The car will be running fine, until I tap the gas with decent force to, lets say, go over a speed bump, and the car will shut off completely and will have trouble starting again so it has to be jumped. Every now and then it will die at idle or just wont start at all unless i us jumper cables. I replaced the alternator, the idle air control, and checked the battery and its good. So i cant figure out whats going on. Please help soon, itsy only car! :(
What makes this problem better or worse?
Its worse when I tap the gas too hard
How long has your 1993 Buick Roadmaster had this problem?
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Hello, something doesn't check out here. For your vehicle to need jumped like that you would have to lose all battery power but that can't just happen suddenly. It seems to me that using jumper cables happens to coincidently be helpful or maybe helps crank the vehicle when it cranks and cranks and the battery dies, necessitating the use of jumper cables. It's really hard to know what the Hecks going on because hands-on testing is definitely required to figure out what's going on here.
My initial gut reaction is you could have a wiring issue which can affected power to the processor or something like that, and "jumping" coincidentally helps.
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