You know when you blow a balloon up and then just let it go...

I'm pretty chuffed. I'm driving home in my Skyline.

I was following my brother home as he had driven me down to pick up the car. At the time he had his black 2nd Silvia with no air conditioning so i was grinning ear to ear that i was cruising along in air conditioned comfort and I let him know. He was happy for my purchase, not so happy for my air con but he also said to me, "For the love of god just don't bend it." Oh the irony, not 15 minutes later when someone turned in front of him and smashed his indicator and bent his front guard. Thankfully, noone was hurt as it was all at very low speeds.

We got closer to the city and parted ways as we live in different suburbs and he had to rush off to cricket training or something, can't quite remember. I don't mind being on my own, just me and my Skyline.

Till it stalls.

Twice.

Car won't idle. At all. Revs fall and instead of leveling out at ~1000rpm they just fall to 0. Rarely has my heart sunk like it did at that point. Not a happy camper, i ring the guy i bought it off. He suggests it could be old fuel or a cracked hose since it hasn't been driven much lately. As an aside he suggest i check the brown plug at the back of the intake. For reference, i now know that's the idle control circuit. It wasn't plugged in. Plug it in, car starts, only just but it starts and idles. Problem solved.

Problem not solved. Car stalls again.

Four more times.

After having to go in search on foot down side streets for some kind blokes in a panel shop to borrow a jump starter from on two separate occasions and several terse phone calls to the cars previous owner i was not a happy camper. I got the car home and it was running horrendously. It was now also leaking fluid from near the back of the exhaust side of the engine.

This is not how the first drive of my new car should have gone, i felt cheated.

SW