Yesterday I was driving the 280E to my future college to sign up for classes, and when I got into the town it's located in she started stalling like crazy, which was freaking me out as it was very stop and go traffic. When I was leaving the town, there wasn't any stalling, which led me to think maybe it had something to do with the AC being on earlier?

This is where maybe it gets weird and I don't know if there is a connection, but when I got home later I moved the car to a different parking spot and she stalled while I was pulling the car out of the driveway and I noticed the Becker radio looked like it was on. This is weird, because it was just there for looks, the PO had installed a Sony CD player in the glove compartment and that was the only one that worked. When I turned off the car, I could hear something in the rear, and I think it was the antenna motor, which hasn't worked since I've owned the car, either.

As a side note, it has been very hot lately, got to 106º day before last. Are these issues related and what are the possible causes? Thanks for any info

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Simon
78 280E "Sally" 130k

Hi... I am interested to see what others have to say about this since I have a simialr problem. Just had a new OVP, fuel pump, and fuel filter installed... and it still stalled a few times. I noticed it happens when its hot outside... during the evening or when its cool, I don;t have any problems.

I also forgot to add that it seemed like I had a lack of power. At one point, I was flooring it to maintain 35 MPH over a pretty small hill and trying to pass a big ol' van was a bit scary. I'm calling the mechanic tomorrow to schedule an appointment. I want to hope it's just a slow idle or something, but I'm not feeling lucky.

Snibble, I know our cars are pretty different, but mind if I ask how much it cost for you to get that work done on your car? I'm also wondering if mine has anything to do with fuel, as I recently calculated my mileage and it looks like I got 14 MPG in my last tank! Granted, that was with some shop time and almost no highway time or what have you. Anyway, thanks for your response and I hope we both get some answers

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Simon
78 280E "Sally" 130k