Can the codes be retrieved with a paper clip on this car? My friend owns it and says the check engine light is on....and it stalls right when you start when it'* hot. I have my inital thoughts, but we need to get at the codes.

Year?

I don't know...but that might help someone else.

is he losing any coolant?

hrmmmm..... just go to autozone... they pull'em

i believe they can be pulled with a test light or a volt meter. i dunno about the paper clip. i think the SES light flashes also but am not sure.

btw, year? as stated before

paper clip will work if its obd1.

Crap. Sorry guys, it'* a 1994. AutoZone already told him they can't pull the codes.

The only experience I have with the symptoms you explained is a clogged cat. It would drive good until it heated up, then it would choke and end up on the side of the road. It would restart, but chuch and choke and die repeatedly.

Is your friend able to drive it when its cold?

Ya, it drives fine when it'* cold. Drives fine when it'* hot, but the air temps are 40 degrees or less, too.

I really think the SES light will point us in the right direction. Anyone, anyone? Bueller, Bueller?