Hi all, need your help with my 2010 Subaru Outback 2.5L premium,
Here’s my issue, when driving the vehicle if I hit the brake suddenly my vehicle shutdown;
I have replaced the battery and the alternator is making his job generating energy at 14.4
I had been troubleshooting and checking the vehicle but at this point I don’t know what to do since I have not check engine lights on at all.
Any suggestions
Thanks for your help and response
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Do you think it's engine loading that makes it die, or electrical system shutdown? If the latter, is the battery OK? Battery cables ever replaced? Ignition switch not flaky or erratic?
I read a recall. It was a newer one. Ignition switches can swing themselves electrically off when braking due to a bad spring in the switch. BUT This is only on cars which have had the switch replaced prior.
No where near enough information in his first post, but if it shuts off only under a sudden,hard, braking - with no locking up of the wheels and no struggling of the engine for a fraction of a second before shutting off - then it sounds like an inertia issue either with a wire somewhere, or, as someone else pointed out, a problem in the ignition switch.
One other possibility that I've read about elsewhere is when there is a lot of stuff hanging off the key chain - when braking hard suddenly, the stuff will swing forward, and depending on how it is attached to the ignition key, can rotate the key to the off position.