Hello All,

I am new to the forum and working on my fiance's Volvo currently. We were driving yesterday and stopped for gas. After filling up, I started the car to pull away and it sputtered and died. I restarted it, put it in drive and it did the same thing. I was able to pull it out of the way and pop the hood but couldnt diagnose on the spot what the issue was so had to get it towed back to my place where it sits now.

I dont think it is a fuel issue because I had over a third of a tank left. A family member had a similar issue recently and the shop told them it was the cap and rotor and they also replaced all the spark plug wires. Well, this is the distributorless version with the coils, which I have personally never worked on before so I was wondering if anyone could tell me if I'm even headed in the right direction and also how to check which coil is bad/misfiring.

Thank you in advance for your help.

 

Hi Gillett and welcome to the forum.

Did you post this over on Matt's site? I think someone suggested checking the ignition ring.

Did you put a OBD-II tester on it? If it's missfiring you can swap the coils and see if the problem follows the piston location.

Other known issues are ETM, CPS, MAF, LOW fuel pressure, and CPS.