Hi guys, did you experiencing engine shut off while driving?

Just raise this question at AE101, what causes engine shut off while driving especially when I applied low pressure in my accelerator pedal, I experienced it in my corolla XE 97, I replaced new battery in my rides. Pls share your ability on this kind of probs. TIA

Could be a blocked fuel filter

magweal wrote:

Could be a blocked fuel filter

Thanks sir magweal for your fast reply. I replaced it already and I´m in the process of observing it. Any other insights please are highly appreciated.

air filter and feul filter..........or low idle rpm....

SHEHROZE ARAIN wrote:

air filter and feul filter..........or low idle rpm....

thanks Sir Shehroze but my rpm idle point is 800 without A/C, i will try to clean also the air filter. Thanks for your suggestion sir.

and bro also check your plugs to.....maybe their time is up........

This could turn out to be a good thread!

Ignition leads, spark plugs, dizzy, knock sensor, injectors, fuel filter, etc
Has the check engine light come one?
Check error codes?

Thank you for the replies sirs... hope this will help.

I will try to clean also the gas tank, any other suggestion for this on how?

When my engine will shut off i noticed that my distributor was hot.

my distributor is look like this, by the way what kind of distributor is this:



I bought my distributor assembly last month December, 2012. Is it normal that the distributor is hot when the engine is on?

hmm, I have actually never noticed, but I would assume it would be normal for the distributer to be hot (since it is bolted to the engine) but I dont actually know if it is suppose to get hot?

Does your engine check light come on when your engine shuts off?

Is it actually shutting completely off (stops burning gas?) or are you just loosing engine power?


...I was driving this morning through a foot of snow which all got sucked into my engine bay and somehow knocked my coolant reservoir onto my battery which caused the battery light to come on. I repositioned the reservoir tank and the light went out after a minute.

So it just goes to show that it could be the simplest thing that can cause problems lol.

i experience this problem........

Corolla Sound wrote:

hmm, I have actually never noticed, but I would assume it would be normal for the distributer to be hot (since it is bolted to the engine) but I dont actually know if it is suppose to get hot?

Does your engine check light come on when your engine shuts off?

Is it actually shutting completely off (stops burning gas?) or are you just loosing engine power?


...I was driving this morning through a foot of snow which all got sucked into my engine bay and somehow knocked my coolant reservoir onto my battery which caused the battery light to come on. I repositioned the reservoir tank and the light went out after a minute.

So it just goes to show that it could be the simplest thing that can cause problems lol.

Hello sir Corolla Sound, my lights were on, only the engine was shut off, there were no electricity was passed into it. Likewise I noticed that the distributor cap was very hot you can´t touch it.

steffon.pragg.7 wrote:

i experience this problem........

Hi Sir Steffon, what did you did in isolating this kind of problem?

vacum leak???? im thinking tha it shows when you just have little press to the gas...and changing the under pressure air in your motor...i have sth like that on my Si when i open to clean my 2 piece plenum and i didnt change my metel gasket so it sucks air from there and when i just hit a little gas my motor hum and haw

mine also shuts off while driving so much i can hardly drive it the check engine light comes on sometimes and also takes a very long time to start but crash starts fine

check your ecu and see if there is any leaking capacitors in it if they have leaked out replace the leaking ones and clean the up what has leaked fixed all my problems with the car

my car stoped while driving . after a look arund, i realised the ground on engine from battery was half way off . the small ground wire from the top of the engine to the chasy did not have any plastic left on it .