1998 Jaguar XJ8L - engine cuts out on the highway

valkrior
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:35:29 +0000
Maintenance/Repairs

What could be causing my Jag to cut out in the middle of driving on the highway? It happens intermittently. It has always only happened when letting off the accelerator quickly. When it happens, the RPMs start dropping (pressing on the gas pedal doesn’t seem to make a difference), the car lurches a few times, and the engine usually cuts off totally. When it happens and I’m driving down the highway, I’ll put the car in Nuetral quickly (so I’m coasting on the highway at 65mph),and I’ll restart it; it will start right back up, then I can move it back in to Drive, and away I go. Other than this, it drives like a champ. The car first did this this past summer, did it once a month or so, then recently, the frequency has been 1-2 a week.

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