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Old 01-07-2008, 11:50 AM
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Jumped and ran like a champ...

Weird title I know. Here's the story.

My car hates winter and battery dies all the time because of it blah blah blah. I got a jumper thing and been using that. I went out yesterday and of course it was dead so I jumped it. The charger had very little juice so it took a minute to get the car running. That battery on the car wasn't completely dead like it's been lately, so I pretty happy.

I started going, and the car ran great. When I let off the gas, idle dropped to perfect right away. It was super smooth, and ran like a champ. I pulled up to a light right down the block and had to rev to keep th rpms from falling bad, and it still ended up dying at the light. I started up, pulled aside and let it idle.

Then I started going again and it ran perfectly for awhile, maybe a mile or 2, and then it went back to how it always run. Rpms take a long time to fall. Have to come to a complete stop before I can hit idle... the usual problems that I always have.

So my question is, what the crap happened? Why it run super great (except for the dying part) when the battery wasn't 100% charged and just jumped, and not have done like that all the times before. Does this make sense to anyone? It was nice having her act like a virgin all over again.
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