CAS beginning to fail?

[Anthony .]

Hi all,
Yesterday I did a 50km trip, with 90% of driving on the highway at 100kmh in my VR V6 commodore auto. Car ran beautifully until I went to park the car at the carpark. Whilst doing about 5kmh in the carpark looking for a spot, the car just stalled and died. Put the shifter back to park, started the car again and all was good. It has not happened again.

What could this be? Could it be the crank angle sensor beginning to fail?

Thanks in advance for the assistance

 

[losh1971]

Carry a bottle of water and pour it over the CAS if it fires back up it could be the CAS. However the more common issue with these is the DFI.

 

[ephect]

A guess with the little info on when it died, but with what you've posted, iac port is prolly gummed up, and couldn't let enough air through in time.

 

[Anthony .]

A guess with the little info on when it died, but with what you've posted, iac port is prolly gummed up, and couldn't let enough air through in time.

Cheers. Pretty much after 45mins of freeway driving+ some inner city driving, the car turned off as I was moving at around 5kmh. The best way I can describe it is like a first time manual driver stalling a manual car. They key was still in the on position, so it didn’t turn off that way.
I should have been more clearer. My apologies

 

[Anthony .]

Carry a bottle of water and pour it over the CAS if it fires back up it could be the CAS. However the more common issue with these is the DFI.

So do I pour the water if this issue happens again? Is the CAS not meant to fire up when wet?
Cheers for the tips!

 

[vc commodore]

Generally when a CAS is failing, the car stalls and doesn't re-fire when it is warm/hot...

By pouring water over it, it cools it down, allowing the car to re-fire....

I don't think your problem is related to a failing CAS, but I'm not right up with this sort of stuff.....

 

[Anthony .]

Generally when a CAS is failing, the car stalls and doesn't re-fire when it is warm/hot...

By pouring water over it, it cools it down, allowing the car to re-fire....

I don't think your problem is related to a failing CAS, but I'm not right up with this sort of stuff.....

Cheers mate

 

[losh1971]

So do I pour the water if this issue happens again? Is the CAS not meant to fire up when wet?
Cheers for the tips!

Pouring it over the CAS cools it.

 

[Lex]

A guess with the little info on when it died, but with what you've posted, iac port is prolly gummed up, and couldn't let enough air through in time.

Take notice of what @ephect has told you.
I think he is on the cause of the stalling?

 

[Anthony .]

A guess with the little info on when it died, but with what you've posted, iac port is prolly gummed up, and couldn't let enough air through in time.

Cheers mate. Will check it out.