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Hi All, First of all a big thank goes to everyone who pitched into help. For the benefit of all the cars suffering from the same issue as mine, I am posting the thing that worked for me. After the last few engine stops I was dead scared to put the car on the road. I tried all sorts of re mediation such as, Engine tune up, Cleaning of fuel pump and fuel system,cleaning of air filter but none of them worked for me. At last I decided to change the Cam sensor. Took the car to a small garage and the guy there got me a cam sensor from one of his contacts.(This was a used one which was taken from an used engine sale) Cost me Rs. 6000 + 500 for the supply and installation. Its been more than 2 weeks now and looks like(fingers crossed) it had worked. But still when ever I get into heavy traffic my stress levels escalate DriverX

When the car refuses to start, it doesn't feel as if there's an excessive load. It freely cranks but wont start. Sometimes it starts for a few seconds but the engine is unable to keep going and it fails. When I depress or pump the accelerator during this still the engine does not speed up. It just goes very slow and stops. A few months back while on my way to kandy, with the car fairly loaded it boiled at Kadugannawa and the engine light was on even after cooling down and restarting. I went to a local garage and they had a scanner. They guy got a code from the scanner which I donot remember now. But the description was something like " .... cam ...... discrimination......". He just reset it and said the engine has heated upto 110 Celsius. I dont know whether this has any bearing on what's happening now. Thanks guys for the enthusiastic comments and suggestions given by all. I will have the garage check all these. Really appreciate the community feeling here. Any extra suggestions are welcome. Thanks

Hi Experts, My case is a bit similar to an earlier case published by someone else. However there were no many helpful suggestions in that one I thought of opening a new case.e. My car (BJ5P)stopped on the middle of the road while driving, at the worst place possible. Halfway in the climb of the peliyagoda overhead bridge around 6pm friday. The car refused to start and after about half an hour it just started as if nothing happened. The temp sensor was not showing anything out of the ordinary. I took it to David Pieris garage where I normally do my repairs and they said a camshaft sensor would need to be replaced. But before that they wanted to do a tuneup and see. However after two weeks yesterday after about a 20km drive I was not able to start the car for a while. I let it be for a while and again it started without any issue. How ever while driving sometimes I feel a sort of vibration/slowing down of the engine kinda thing happening and it gives me the chills.... :-( So now I wont to get this thing over with I am going to replace the cam sensor on monday. Any suggestions for this? Appriciate all the ideas. Thanks in advance