Lancer stalling and throwing cel

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wackospackojacko

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Hey y’all,

need some help with my 2000 ce coupe.
To begin with it started to jolt and stutter before stalling. Once I started it again it seemed to drive fine before throwing the CEL and jolting until it stalled, after sitting for a minute, the CEL went away so I tried to limp it home, I made it about 5kms before it stalled and refused to start again. Once I managed to start it, the CEL comes and goes away seemingly at random and it occasionally dies
Anyone have any idea what the issue could be? I’d appreciate any help
 
Have tried, my mates scan tool won’t read my car and the snapon scanner from the mechanic where my other mate works didn’t pick anything up
 
You'll need to check the CEL manually. Shorting out two pins on the OBD socket will make the CEL flash in a sequence that you can decode and narrow down the problem area. I think its pins 1 and 4 (double check this, or maybe its 12 and 1?) , and the CEL will flash in two lots - long flashes for groups of 10, a break of a second or two, and then short flashes for singles. So say 3 long flashes and 4 short flashes will be code34.
 
donki said:
You'll need to check the CEL manually. Shorting out two pins on the OBD socket will make the CEL flash in a sequence that you can decode and narrow down the problem area. I think its pins 1 and 4 (double check this, or maybe its 12 and 1?) , and the CEL will flash in two lots - long flashes for groups of 10, a break of a second or two, and then short flashes for singles. So say 3 long flashes and 4 short flashes will be code34.
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I’ll give that a try, would I do that by holding a paperclip to the two pins? Still new to this kind of stuff
 
wackospackojacko said:
I’ll give that a try, would I do that by holding a paperclip to the two pins? Still new to this kind of stuff
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Yep, paperclip or a piece of wire, anything conductive. Just double check (i think its listed on the forums) that i have the correct pins to short out. Its a bit awkward to short it and look at the cluster, but it will just keep looping the error codes anyway.
 
donki said:
Yep, paperclip or a piece of wire, anything conductive. Just double check (i think its listed on the forums) that i have the correct pins to short out. Its a bit awkward to short it and look at the cluster, but it will just keep looping the error codes anyway.
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I got code23, any idea what this means?
 
Code 23 is camshaft position sensor fault. Replace it and see if that fixes your issues
 
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