[logician]

Hi,

Regarding engine not starting and intermittent engine cutout: I had exactly the same problem in my '85 Carrera, and it turned out to be the DME relay.

First time it happened was while I was on course at an Autocross. The engine just cut out for a second, and then kept going. On the way home, it did the same thing on the freeway. It kept cutting out intermittently for the next few weeks. In the next few weeks, it would sometimes die completely while driving around the block. I would crank the engine to try to restart it, but nothing would happen. However, I would always be able to get it to start within a few minutes. My recollection is that hitting the relay with a screw driver when it was broken seemed to help bring it to life.

I did not have to remove the driver's seat to replace the relay.

-Juan