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Message: <blockquote data-quote="leforte" data-source="post: 147078" data-attributes="member: 1943">My friend's e36 325 suffered the same problem as well. the culprit was his crank angle sensor which measures the flywheel speed and sends the signal to the ECU for ignition timing. it was coated with oil and dirt thus preventing the sensor from reading the teeth on the flywheel. the problem was rectified after cleaning the sensor and fixing the leak near the oil filter.The sensor's wire may be the culprit too. These sensors have a thick wire that doesn't like to bend, and if it is bent it will usually snap. If this sensor's wire is broken, your spark plugs will not fire. your's could be broken internally, and everytime your brake or stop the car, the change of momentum must have severed the connection thus shutting off the ignition.</blockquote>