i7kazamay

For about five weeks I let my car sit on the drive way while I rode my motorcycle to summer school classes. Thursday night my mom told me that she sold my car to my uncle in Colorado, so my mom wanted my other uncle the mechanic to check it out and see if its safe to drive it there, that night I cleaned it up a bit and charged the batteries by letting it run for 30 min after being jumped (not my idea), battery had less then 2 volts before being jumped . Friday he took it out to his shop, I noticed the car was still here Saturday morning so I summed I’m keeping my car. I tried to take it out Saturday evening, as the engine was warming up it started to idle rough. I drove it down the block and decided to turn back, it wasn’t responsive what I applied more gas. When the rpm dropped below 2k it was start getting rough down to 500 rpm, over 2k it sounded okay but there was no power. I talked to my mom the next morning and she said they put new oil and Freon for $90, its been 7,000 miles since the last time I changed my oil with synthetic mobile 1. I know my AC worked fine the night I had to clean it out. Mom said within the time I drove its my fault it broke down, I think the mechanic messed something up, Dad drove it for a bit and suggests the transmission is dieing, but I never had a problem with the transmission.

What do you guys think? Any ideas on how I should try to fix my car, it’s a 95 touring with 160k miles have had it for 3 year probably less then 10k driven a year. Had at least 15 gallons of gas when I left it, when it was warming up after storage it idled okay. I tried resetting the ecu but it still continued. I even noticed a new scratch by my right bumper probably 6” long, I’m so ticked off.

i7kazamay

Just check the dip stick and notice the oil is past the Full mark, I took a peak at the spark plugs I think... can't really tell because its submerged under oil... all I saw was B on top of something that looked like the top of a spark plug.

Does to much oil = idling problems?

link13

No, it's not the oil level, though you should drain a bit out. When you cleaned it up, did you hose off the engine? It sounds like there's water in the spark plug wells.

i7kazamay

I don't think any one hosed it. If it was will it eventually go away?

link13

My car had the same issue at the body shop and it was fine a week later, so my guess is it will, but it depends in part on how much water is in there.

i7kazamay

I took out over 1 quart now the level is in between min and full. It still idled rough so I looked at the spark plug well again and noticed that the fluid does look like water and oil mixed together. My dad and uncle suggest its the valve cover gaskets, I'll be looking into that next.

link13

Water and oil not coolant and oil, right? Coolant and oil would likely be the head gasket.

pimpin gs

I dont think its the head gasket. Is there smoke coming from the tail pipes? thats a sure sign of head gasket leaking. Are the belts turning at the right RPMs? It might be bad plugs or a bad set of plug wires. Check that first. Good luck...