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Car stalls after 50-100 miles on the highway
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syvmn
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Feb 10, 2010, 5:53 PM
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Car stalls after 50-100 miles on the highway
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My poor 89 Plymouth Reliant isn't being so reliable. I've had a few problems in the last few months and now another (big) one. I went on a trip to Wichita, KS from Minnesota and took the ol' reliant. I've only used it for commuting for probably about a year now. After about 100 miles going 65mph on the highway the car went "sputter................sputter........sputter....sputter..sputter,sputtersputter" so I popped it into neutral and pulled onto the shoulder. I saw nothing wrong under the hood so we kept going. All the way to Kansas City it did this about every 50-100 miles. I dropped it off there and rented a car to take the rest of the way. On our return trip the same thing happened every 100 miles or so.
It seemed like the longer I let the car rest after a sputtering episode, the longer it lasted on the next stint. Any idea what might be going on?
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Tom Greenleaf
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Feb 11, 2010, 6:23 AM
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Re: Car stalls after 50-100 miles on the highway
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Guess: Very sticky valve exacerbated by heat. Check compression when it's doing it to diagnose for starters,
T
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