Car update

[cjsmith]

Friday night I looked under the hood and discovered that one of the leads from the distributor was loose. I must have been misfiring on one cylinder constantly! I'm surprised the car's working as well as it is! That would explain a LOT. I wonder just how long it's been like that. Sigh.

So I plugged it back in. I thought that fixed the problem, but no, now it's happening again. When I apply enough power ("enough" is purposefully vague -- the problem is very intermittent) the engine runs roughly, acceleration gets a bunch of surges, and sometimes it will even backfire. This seems to happen only during rain, but that correlation is too new for me to trust it much.

Nothing else under the hood is loose. I've reached the limit of my car-problem-solving abilities. So I get to take it in on Monday. I really hope the fix is simple.

Comments

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

Take it to someone you trust, then watch them. I had my truck tuned up because I'm unable to do it myself. The truck ran worse when I got it back than before they started. I was told that a simple gasket needed replacing at the cost of $14, but the location of the gasket would entail $350 labor. I took it someplace else and they told me someone had switched my sparkplug wires around. That fix, another tune up and muffler repair cost me less that $100 at the new place and the truck runs fine. (My car, on the other hand, got totalled Friday night. Thank God my wife is safe. I heard the crash inside the house and ran out to find it was my wife who'd been run into. Not a good thing for my heart condition.) Get a second opinion if you even suspect a charge might be out of line.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

You're female! How do you know so much about cars?

*ducking*

*running*