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Old Dec 9, 2005 | 06:24 PM
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meberra
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Default car wont stay running....

Well heres the dealie-o, Thurs. it snowed for the first time up to 10 inchs. i didnt have any traction at All cause i still had my 17' performace street tires on. i almost made it home (1/2 a block) and i get stuck. i try digging the snow from the tires, pushing it, rocking back and forward in Rev. and Drive. Suddenly the car losses power and DIES......theres nothing i can do. after 3 trys i get it started and i end up swing the car around in a 180 and it dies again. not knowing if i could be killing my battery restarting it each time, i leave it and walk the rest of the way home. Friday, the streets are pretty clear (alittle) and the car starts up fine. i take it for a test drive and on the highway it starts shaking like mad. i get back on the reguler streets and it stops shaking at 40mph. later on in the day, i do a few running around and now its time to get some new factory rims for this snow. i get a little ways too the tire shop and the car just shuts off Again. this time it wont start back up. so i throw it into Neutral and push it as far as i can and walk the rest of the way( 100feet or more). i get in to see first if they can do a battery test but the line was really long so i go back to see for my self. everything seems fine as far as i can tell but i know its not...... i try to start it once more and Bingo its running. i get my tires on and they say the battery was fine and it was a fluk . so im on my way home and what do u know..... Thats right, it dies. i start it back up so im not blocking traffic get to the next stop light and it dies again. this time i noticed the RMPs kinda just drop and try to rise agian before it went. so i figured if i keep one foot on the brake and the other on the gas a stop lights it wont die. -YEP- dosnt die but 1 time on the way home.

I know this was kinda long, but im stomped... i've kinda narrowed it down to being bad gas, frozen fuel lines, or a dirty dizzy cap. but i have know idea, my car has never acted this way. the only thing new done to the car was a new Alternator. i check for any codes the car maybe throing but there were none. any ideas as to whats going on???
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