so i was at a light earlier driving normall and when i took off the car was fine then when i shifted into second gear the car completly shut off..no power steering,brakes and it was dead...lights were fine tho...so i let it role off the side of the road and crank it over started fine! What is this???why did it do it?? i was easy on the car...my mods are in sig..by the way if i had been going really fast i wouldve died. SCARY

 

Sometimes when you hit a bump hard they will shut off, did this happen to you?

 

knee hit the key, has happened to me numerous times.

 

You may wanna back up off from eating the steering wheel then.

 

Do you drive in the fetal position?

 

you killed it, learn how to drive stick!!! J/K, see post 3, seems like a place to start.

 

I've had mine shut off after hitting a bad bump. Kinda scary when it happens.

 

Yeah, my vote is also for bumping the key somehow. Its happened to me before.

 

How the hell do you guys "bump your key" ?!?!?!?!!?

 

I hit my keychain/other keys while going for the CD eject.

Mine is soooooooooooo touchy..

 

yea sorry i dont drive like a gangsta in my car, also its from hitting the keychain on the keys.

 

humm i see...well i was kinda far up in the seat cuz i just let someone in my car...and i was going over a kinda bump thingy in the intersection while shifting....thanks guys!!

 

^this happens to me all the time

 

If it happens again you should get it looked at

 

I have had the problem of the ignition taking enough of a "bump" to kill the car. I have also had a problem with an intermittent CKP sensor tripping on me and killing the car. The car will refuse to start for a good 5-10 minutes and then fires up like nothing ever happened. The MIL light will be on for the first time running and will then be off every consecutive start up from there on out. I haven't replaced my CKP sensor yet and it has only happened to me twice in almost 55,000 miles. Some of the other guys here have had this issue as well.

 

Wait till it shuts off when your WOT going 80mph.

Mine was the crank sensor, did it twice and never again.