Engine stall with SE5

[dguisinger]

I'm confused! Are we talking a stall or a hesitation? A stall is when the engine quits completely and needs to be restarted. A hesitation can be a lag, misfire, or even the nanny kicking in. Cranking up the throttle suddenly on a cold engine can produce a lag (lack of response), but seldom will kill the engine. The dealer sounds like he is describing a bobble or hesitation, not the engine quitting completely. I can buy that explanation for a hesitation, but not for a complete stall. If your engine quits completely, it needs to be looked into. The dealer's explanation will not cut it for that circumstance. "They all do it" wasn't a satisfactory explanation for your mother, and it should not be for you.

We are talking about a complete kill of the engine less than 30 seconds after starting after shifting from R to N to 1 as soon as i touched the throttle. no engine lights, it didn't record it in the computer, the computer actually stayed on. I just had to restart the engine and things worked fine.

 

[NancysToy]

We are talking about a complete kill of the engine less than 30 seconds after starting after shifting from R to N to 1 as soon as i touched the throttle. no engine lights, it didn't record it in the computer, the computer actually stayed on. I just had to restart the engine and things worked fine.

That is a stall, and I don't buy the tech's explanation. If waiting a few seconds for the Spyder to warm up is a good work-around, that's fine. If it happens at other times, it is a little scary. Either way, it really needs to be addressed either by the tech or by BRP.