Uromastyxman
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Hello fellow Toyota fans. I'm new to this forum and have joined because I have a problem. My beloved Colorado 2002 Diesel has started to randomly cut out suddenly. No spluttering or hint it's going to happen, It's as if someone just turns it off at the key. It's happened about five times. The first time was when I was stationary on my drive after just pulling in. it then happened again on the dual carriageway at about 50 mph and I had to get on the hard shoulder and put it into park to start it. It starts immediately with no problem. I took it to my Toyota guys and they checked the fault codes. They said they couldn't be a 100 %sure but that they'd seen it happen before with these codes and it was usually the fuel suction valves and they replaced these.
£600.00 lighter I drove the car away and a week later it happened again. Instant cut off. The garage took it back for 11 days but told me the same codes had come up but that they couldn't repeat the error and couldn't isolate the problem. They were stumped, and admitted defeat, however I am still £600 down and the car still randomly cuts out.
It did it again last night on the dual carriage. I noticed the front passenger window was open an inch and was making a noise, so I put my fingers on the two buttons for the front electric windows to close them and the car cut out instantly. There is no doubt the cut out was triggered by the window buttons. It started immediately no problem. It feels like an electrical problem rather than a fuel problem. I was driving at night with the ac on , the lights and the radio so I was wondering if it is a short circuit or overload of some sort. I'm not a mechanic. The garage have said the windows should be on their own circuit and they can't understand it. They said bring it in and they'll check the codes.
Does anyone have any ideas or experience of this? If I can't fix it I'll have to sell it for scrap, even though I'd hoped to drive it for another 5 or 10 years. Then I'll have to by another LC anyway. I thought the cut out being triggered by the windows would help the garage isolate the cause, however because it's a 2002 car the fault codes are not very definitive.
Your help would be appreciated as I'm facing a huge cost because this fault can't be diagnosed and I can't drive the car with the kids in it. Thanks in advance. Andy
£600.00 lighter I drove the car away and a week later it happened again. Instant cut off. The garage took it back for 11 days but told me the same codes had come up but that they couldn't repeat the error and couldn't isolate the problem. They were stumped, and admitted defeat, however I am still £600 down and the car still randomly cuts out.
It did it again last night on the dual carriage. I noticed the front passenger window was open an inch and was making a noise, so I put my fingers on the two buttons for the front electric windows to close them and the car cut out instantly. There is no doubt the cut out was triggered by the window buttons. It started immediately no problem. It feels like an electrical problem rather than a fuel problem. I was driving at night with the ac on , the lights and the radio so I was wondering if it is a short circuit or overload of some sort. I'm not a mechanic. The garage have said the windows should be on their own circuit and they can't understand it. They said bring it in and they'll check the codes.
Does anyone have any ideas or experience of this? If I can't fix it I'll have to sell it for scrap, even though I'd hoped to drive it for another 5 or 10 years. Then I'll have to by another LC anyway. I thought the cut out being triggered by the windows would help the garage isolate the cause, however because it's a 2002 car the fault codes are not very definitive.
Your help would be appreciated as I'm facing a huge cost because this fault can't be diagnosed and I can't drive the car with the kids in it. Thanks in advance. Andy