Hello Jaguar Nation,

In October I was admitted into the hospital and had open heart surgery; I was there for 34 days. I am recovering now! Before my hospital stay I was having a problem with my '95 Vanden Plas. When I would approach a stop it would STALL and the TRANSMISSION light would come on. I was able to get it started again to drive it home. It has been sitting in my garage every since. I purchased another battery and will put it in tomorrow. I am almost sure that I will still have this same STALL problem as before. Jaguar Nation, I am reaching out to you once again for your HELP! What possibly could this be? Thanks

 

Just a little better than a guess, but the crank position sensor can be intermittent and if it glitches while the car is moving, it can result in a mismatch of engine and transmission speed sensors, ergo the tranny fault.

 

crank sensor, dirty throttle body(especially the idle air control valve passage, remove throttle to clean this, dont leave it on) and or throttle postion sensor(TPS)
those are the top 3 that come to mind

 

Thanks Brutal, so what should I do? Replace the crank sensor and throttle position sensor and clean the throttle body? What I have gathered reading up on a few post; dirty air control valve or even a dirty idle senor...... Does that make sense and can those items be cleaned without being replaced?