Evening all I have a problem and i'm wanting to pick on your wealth of experience.
I have a 98 126 with a 652cc and electronic controlled sparks.
She's fine on short journeys and barely misses a beat, however after half an hours driving she'll be fine under load, but soon as she slow's down (breaking for instance) or you down shift she cuts out (with the oil and batty light lighting up on the dash).
Pip (the car) is then totally dead, won't turn over, but the batty is full (95%), the engine isn't ceased (hand turns) but it wont crank. Turning the key on the ignition doe's dim the light on the dash, but no turning. She can't even be bump started at this point.
But give Pip a few hours to become stone cold and she'll fire up fine as if nothing happened, but will repeat the process after another half hour / 40min's.
Any body got any experience of this before, and how did you resolve this?
Thanks in advance - Pip and Driver