[s-cars] flame out during morning drive?

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Rich flamed out
>Need some guidence..
>Found that I picked up a nail in the pass  rear and got
>up early to take down to the tire shop for road  hazard
>repair 10 min away. While driving all of sudden
>Battery and  brake warning indcators come on and I
>notice that Power steering has  ceased working!!! WTF?
>Pull into lot and kill eng. key off and back on  with
>same result. 
>Where do I start with this one?
 
Rich,
Is this to say that the car will not start?  How'bout a little more  info?
That said, I'll take urS fixes for $500 Alex -
You're driving along and the car suddenly and inexplicably dies.
It will not restart.
Answer is (could be,)
"What is a coil shorted to ground?"
 
If it is this, you can pull no ecu codes and the 15 amp fuse (blue  colored) 
above the ecu will 
be blown.  Better electro engineers than me can explain how to figure  out 
which one is gone,
but one way is to get a half dozen fuses and disconnect each coil one by  
one.  Turn the
ignition on each time and when the fuse does NOT blow, that's the bad  coil. 
IMHO coils should be changed every 110k or so but I have only done one  since 
I'm waiting for
a big coil GP along with a big Spark plug GP... that may never come:(
Anywaze.. HTH, good luck and give us some more to go on.
Bill m