Girlfriend's Santa Fe, 2004 w/4-cyl. engine has been stalling now intermittently in drive at low speeds/idle.
Mentioned the trans problems in a previous post. Tonight, it stalled at least 8 times in a 2-mile drive from her house. Once it had warmed up a bit it stopped stalling long enough to get to the auto parts store to borrow their OBD-II code reader to read the MIL code, which turned out to be a P0335 -- Crank Position Sensor Bank A.
I'm guessing it MAY be the crank sensor is the problem -- however, from what I've read, it seems that the crank sensor failing would default the firing sequence to TDC, which would allow the engine to continue to run, but lack power.
I had this problem with a '99 Saturn SL-1 belonging to my ex-wife; at that time the CPS was not the problem -- the bad valve body causing the famous Saturn "reverse slam" was confusing the CPS and throwing the CPS code even though the valve body sticking was the issue.
Seems like this isn't too awfully hard of a job -- remove alternator, belts, and lower timing belt cover, and replace CPS without having to re-time engine or anything else.
I'm taking the car with me, I work near a Hyundai dealer, and all my tools are 40 mins away at my house, so she'll be borrowing my car for the next few days. She's a single mom so my doing the work will really save her bacon as far as costs go.
Any thoughts? Could CPS failure cause stalling? Would it not throw a code until now? It's stalled a few times over the past week or two without throwing a code, but tonight it actually had trouble restarting once or twice.
Appreciate insight from anyone except Alan51, who I'm sure will weigh in with some sarcasm.
Mentioned the trans problems in a previous post. Tonight, it stalled at least 8 times in a 2-mile drive from her house. Once it had warmed up a bit it stopped stalling long enough to get to the auto parts store to borrow their OBD-II code reader to read the MIL code, which turned out to be a P0335 -- Crank Position Sensor Bank A.
I'm guessing it MAY be the crank sensor is the problem -- however, from what I've read, it seems that the crank sensor failing would default the firing sequence to TDC, which would allow the engine to continue to run, but lack power.
I had this problem with a '99 Saturn SL-1 belonging to my ex-wife; at that time the CPS was not the problem -- the bad valve body causing the famous Saturn "reverse slam" was confusing the CPS and throwing the CPS code even though the valve body sticking was the issue.
Seems like this isn't too awfully hard of a job -- remove alternator, belts, and lower timing belt cover, and replace CPS without having to re-time engine or anything else.
I'm taking the car with me, I work near a Hyundai dealer, and all my tools are 40 mins away at my house, so she'll be borrowing my car for the next few days. She's a single mom so my doing the work will really save her bacon as far as costs go.
Any thoughts? Could CPS failure cause stalling? Would it not throw a code until now? It's stalled a few times over the past week or two without throwing a code, but tonight it actually had trouble restarting once or twice.
Appreciate insight from anyone except Alan51, who I'm sure will weigh in with some sarcasm.
