We have had problems with our landlord, to the point we have been taken to court, but we won hands down our eviction case-he had no evidence, and had tried with HUD to dispose of our lease, which we had a cop of. We also found out he has multiple convictions for drugs, making him unable to testify legally, tho he had. He's no stable at all.
December 20th, we decided to action a wage garnishment on him, and a neighbor on parole for drugs heard us, and spoke to him-we found an ice footprint, two actually, on our porch. When we drove into town, our car started coughing, and we pulled into a station. My son, home from Afghanistan, tested and found out someone had sugared our tank.
After we took of the fuel filter, we found that the filter had caught most of what turned out we think ,to be prestone. It is however, still hesitating, and idling around 500-800, as we think our son turned it down. It runs fine otherwise, and I've replaced half the spark plugs, will do the second rear half tomorrow, as well as check the IAC after reading here.
Since the new spark plugs, Bosch 4 point plat, the car gets much better gas mileage. I'm also running STP Carbureutor fluid, which helped a lot, and left one spark plug with some burned looking brown, and we found blackened bits on it, and it shone like oil.
So I wanted to ask:
1. What else can I do?
2. We had a car, a plymouth van, 4 years ago quit out, in much the same circumstances. Our landlord helped us then, we were only able to get it partway to start, with large amounts of starter spray. Could he have sugared our last one too? It refused to turn over all the way.
Someone at Autzone suggested it could also have been oil or perhaps transmission fluid. Anyone know how to tell?