Stalling

I am having the same problem with my pre owned 97 pontiac Sunfire. Mine is a 2.4 liter twin cam engine with 111,500. I also had my crank sensor replaced and I cleaned the throttle body, and I dont think it's a weak ignition spark because the engine runs so soundly. I thought I could check the fuel pressure, and maybe replace the fuel pump, but I dont know if it would help out at all. What do u think?

My car is a Pontiac Bonneville 1998 and it stalls once a week and will not start either a few hours or days later my car will start perfectly fine like nothings wrong. I got my crank and cam sensor fixed and it worked fine for another week and stalled again. I then got my fuel pump replaced and the screen replaced and my gas gage fixed. Most of the time it stalls when I roll up a window. I dont know what to do noone knows whats wrong can you help me?

Wow - I have the same problem.

I deal with Saturn of Belleville because of convenience, decent service, and because I used to own an older Saturn (and it's all GM).

I had this same problem with my Sunfire. Once a month, to about one every couple/few months, it will suddenly start to act like it's out of gas (or I say air or water in the gas tank). It teases that it's going to stall and usually does after acting this way for a while. It will restart with a great deal of reluctance, sometimes the first time, sometimes not for a couple of minutes.

I took it to Saturn a couple times and always it was the same thing - the EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirulation) valve. Finally, September 2006 I had them replace it - pretty pricy. It didn't do the stalling/sputtering thing for almost a year. I thought it was fixed. Sometime early Summer it did it again. I took it to Saturn and they said they took the EGR valve and cleaned it (or something - no charge so I didn't analyze it). Then just last week the same thing - this time Saturn wouldn't help me unless I paid a $42 service charge, so I decided to stop going to Saturn. I didn't want to pay for service for an in-warranty part that was defective for the second time (that's another issue). I think this problem is just something that "happens" - maybe a poor timing belt, who knows. Possibly it could have been a recall issue if it happened to more vehicles.

Point being, I think it's the EGR valve as it fixed it for me for a few months. It just seems there's no permanent fix and also won't cause the car to break down permanently so only an intermittent, hour or two long issue.

MEM!