Not really thread worthy I suppose, but thought I'd say something.

Was caught in some rather heavy traffic the other day, so I got to the point where I moved an inch, wait 3 minutes, move an inch etc.

On one particular part of my inching journey I decided to rest my feet. So put the handbrake on, out of gear, lifted clutch.

Wait 30-45 seconds.

Touching nothing. Car stalls. No horrible thud like normal stalling. Just a polite wheeze and the dash lighting up.

Was quite weird seeing as it was idling fine for a while and then just gave up for no reason. Jam lasted just over an hour in the end.

No repeats so far. I'm chalking it up to strange voodoo.

ray - a guy called gerald!

it was a message from god to turn your engine off. Maybe you should have?

A friend of mine was seeing if the max speed of the 107 was really 99 mph as claimed by Peugeot. She got it up to 115 on the speedo :eek: . All of a sudden the car stalled. She had to coast to the hard sholder and turn it off and back off again.

No idea why? :confused:

My only thought is the engine heated up to the point of the fan cutting in..... the theory here is that when then fan cut in and the electrical drain that this causes, may have had and excessive surge/drain from the engine and forced the engine to stall..... which would explain the warning lights comming on and then the engine gently stalling on you.

Anther possibility the voltage regulator may be on its way out, and only reared it ugly head when the fan cut in and took that extra juice from the system.

These are my theories anyhow, but I would recommend to you to wait for a response from those here who are professional mechanic's

Hope this helps

Q

A friend of mine was seeing if the max speed of the 107 was really 99 mph as claimed by Peugeot. She got it up to 115 on the speedo :eek: . All of a sudden the car stalled. She had to coast to the hard sholder and turn it off and back off again.

No idea why? :confused:

Bear in mind 99mph in reality maybe 115 on the speedo. If you use a GPS device that tells you the speed then it's amazing how much out the speedo is. 80mph in my VRS in 73mph!

as for the car stalling??maybe cos it's french:D and an awful car

didi you try to open the leccy doors at the same time? maybe it overloaded and the engine cut out

Had that happen to me last Dec . Not in traffic but after waiting at red light for about 30 secs just after coming off free flowing motorway. In neutral, handbrake on, quite happy and then just died. No repeats since - maybe the ECU just got bored with my restrained cruising!

as for the car stalling??maybe cos it's french:D and an awful car

it was developed with toyota too so cant be that unreliable....:confused: