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[TC1600]

Give me an older car to work on any day of the week, the moment they started putting computers in cars things all turned pear shaped!
I've got a VX at the moment that will just stop at random intervals just when you need it to least, sometimes it starts straight back up, other times you have to wait half and hour...an hour, imagine how much fun that is on a hot day with the kids in the car.
Went to the trouble of buying a diagnostics cable/software and have since replaced the fuel filiter, 2 O2 sensors, the ignition module and the coil pack after receiving those error codes on the diagnostics, long story short, it's still doing it....and giving me the same error codes even after replacing. Now I'm getting errors for the camshaft sensor and the crankshaft sensor which I can't do myself anyway because you need a special tool to get the pulley off the front of the motor.
Computers.....overrated! (and not as smart as they make out)

Definitely sounds like crank angle sensor, when they start to fail they go when hot, tip a bottle of water over it and it will fire up again. They can keep running when failed as the computer knows the crank position, or near enough, but when you switch it off then go to restart it has no starting reference.