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Unoriginal
07-08-2013, 07:16 PM
So I was driving down the road and it died pulling out into the street. Its raining pretty heavily here and I had driven through a puddle about 1/4 mile ago. Maybe 3 inches deep. Splash pan is on. Tried restarting it and nothing happened the first time. 5 minutes later it turned over and starts right away then dies 10 seconds later. Now it turns with the started, shakes quite a bit but doesn't fire.

Any thoughts? I'm in a parking lot I rolled to waiting on AAA.

Unoriginal
07-08-2013, 07:35 PM
Tried starting it one last time and it stayed on this time. Drove it home. I'm guessing something got wet. Any ideas what? Should I be worried?

WDBMX5
07-08-2013, 07:52 PM
is this the first time it has done that and has it done anything like that before wet or dry??

Unoriginal
07-08-2013, 08:16 PM
Never happened to me before. Had this car for about a year.

kung fu jesus
07-09-2013, 10:11 AM
Wife did the same thing with her 10ae when TS Andrea came through. It ran VERY rough. It was the Crank Position Sensor. Hook it to an OBD2 scanner, pull the codes, clear, wait for them to come back. Hers threw a ton of codes at first, but the CPS code came back.

kung fu jesus
07-09-2013, 11:50 AM
Try pulling the plug wires and drying them off.

WDBMX5
07-09-2013, 01:05 PM
KFJ to the rescue...lol...u r well versed in miatas...LOL....hope mine is the cps as well...got one ordered hope it fixies the issue for now...i mentioned the EGI (is that right)...where would i get one??

Unoriginal
07-09-2013, 10:45 PM
Ran flawlessly today. Only code stored when I took it by advance auto was a cat below threshold that has been there for a while. Plugs and wires were dry.