• urata@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Figure out what’s wrong with my car. Taking it to a shop is probably too expensive and figuring it out myself is too daunting of a task. It sometimes dies when I’m slowing to a stop, and I have to put it in park and restart it. Sometimes it’s hard to start and then the tachometer stays at zero even though the engine is running.

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      10 hours ago

      I had something intermittent like this, and it turned out that I had a cracked distributor cap. It turned out to be a stupidly easy repair, and not a very expensive part.

      Edit: this was a car as ancient as I am. I’m not sure modern cars even have that part, anymore.

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      I’d add some fuel injector cleaner. The fuel injectors might be gummed up and when it gets to low rpm it starves the engine of fuel.

    • aramis87@fedia.io
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      Surely there’s a mechanics advice community here somewhere? They could at least get you started on troubleshooting.