Stall after Change Oil warning comes on?

[espz06]

So I'm cruising home from work, and the Change Oil Soon appears. Okay, I took my baby out on a road course track last weekend, so it was in the plan anyway, and I'm coming up on three months of ownership, so I figure, hey, this thing is pretty good.

I turn a corner, and it loses power (like the "reduced power mode", but nothing came on the DIC), and as I'm trying to pull over, she stalls out. No codes. No nothing. I turned it over, and it started right up, so I could get out of the street. Then I checked codes on the DIC, and found nothing.

I changed oil last night, and it didn't do it this morning, but anyone ever experience anything like this? This was waaaaay worse than the reduced power mode (which happened twice to me before I fixed the EBCM).

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I hope you checked your oil level both before and (especially) after you tracked it, but it sounds like you didn't. Don't forget to check your clutch fluid for murkiness...

[ZO6 AL-X]

It's a little bizarre. I agree with the above post. Also, check your spark plugs and wires when you get a chance.

[espz06]

Well oil level was fine before and after the race, and before I changed it, as I did, indeed, check it. And now, for that matter!

I really don't think the two are related, but it's weird that it happened at the same time like that. I'm leaning towards the body ground contacts needing to be cleaned, because I get occasional weird electrical things going on. Like when I bought it the gas gauge stopped reading. But once I got home it came back on and hasn't given me a problem since (except that it doesn't read fully FULL, if ya know what I mean).

I will check the clutch fluid. I don't know how that might affect it stalling, but I haven't done that yet, so I do that tonight when I get home.

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Originally Posted by espz06

I will check the clutch fluid. I don't know how that might affect it stalling, but I haven't done that yet, so I do that tonight when I get home.

Didn't imply that clutch fluid had anything to do with it, just a reminder on preventative maintenance, especially since you just tracked it. Don't want you to start having stuck clutch issues...

[RocketSled]

The stall was likely just coincidental. Certainly, there's nothing in the design of the car to make it stall out because it thinks it needs an oil change. I've had this message pop up a few times over the years (usually, I change my oil at 40%, but sometimes I forget to keep track) and never had any "side effects"...

The only possible relationship I could think of is that there's something screwy with the DIC. You got the message, I'm assuming you hit RESET to clear it off the DIC? Perhaps the DIC "glitched" in some fashion that caused the PCM to misbehave.

But that's a real long shot thesis. Much more likely it was coincidental.

I had my 98 Coupe go in to limp home one day, for no apparent reason. It lit up the dashboard like a christmas tree, rang the bell tone, said "reduced power" on the DIC. I shut down, cleared the codes, restarted and it ran fine for another 2 years before I finally traded it on the Z. If you felt like you were in reduced power mode, but there was no alert on the DIC, you probably weren't in reduced power mode.

In this context, the idea that you might have a bad Ground is a good one. It's funny that you didn't get any codes, but I suppose a bad Ground would have that effect (ignition switch, too, I suppose). There is no error code for a PCM that's just switching on/off randomly.

Clutch fluid levels won't make a difference. The PCM could care less about whether you have any clutch fluid or not. The start-interlock switch is on the pedal (and it wouldn't effect a running engine, anyway).

You say this was way worse than the reduced power problems you had before you replaced the EBCM. That may be a clue, too. How long ago did you do this replacement and have you checked to make sure everything is still tight?