1999 Saturn SW2 engines dies after 30 minutes!

TOMSW21999

MEMBER
1999 SATURN SW2
4 CYL
2WD
AUTOMATIC
85,000 MILES

My 1999 sw2 died in traffic at approximately 30 minutes into the ride home last tuesday. It started the next day like there was nothing wrong with it. It sure "acted" like fuel starvation. I got it home and parked it. Took my Chrysler van to work since then.

Tonight I took it for a ride, not straying too far from home. At exactly 32 minutes it did it again! It's now sitting in a restaurant parking lot.

When I bought the car new in 1999, I seem to remember the dealer telling me something about a passive theft system that shuts the fuel off if the car thinks it's been "compromised". I don't have any documentation on it and can't find any on the net, except that many cars around this time had it.

sound right? Can I get a saturn dealer to disable it if it is faulty. Gonna be real annoying not being able to drive it more than 32 minutes at a time! Work is 35-40!

Thanks
Tom

1 Reply

SATURNTECH9

MECHANIC
30,869 POSTS

Hey Tom doesn't sound like the antitheft module at all and it's hard wired into the wiring so let's not talk about bypassing it. If it was bad it would easier to just get one at pick apart then by pass it. So hears what u need to do let car cool down then it should start drive it home where it's safe and u can work on it. Then let the car at ur house run till it dies and won't start then I want u to pull two spark plug wires off the coils that are right next to each other then have someone crank it over when it doesn't start and watch for spark it should jump from tower to tower. Let me know if u have spark. Do have a multimeter that's tests ohms?I have idea what it is let me know what u find.