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Old 05-12-2008, 09:30 PM
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Real Name: Michaela
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It's a love-hate thing.

I'm 17, I live in New York, and I have a 1999 Jeep Cherokee Sport.

It's got about 112,000 miles on it, and I've had it since November 2006. It's a nice car, but honestly I do abuse it. Haha. I'm one of those crazy teenage drivers. And I love driving fast, and just fooling around.

But lately all of my antics have been showing on the car. Last June it started acting funny. When I first started it up and began driving it down the street, it began accelerating funny. It would jerk forward real quick and then not accelerate at all when i pushed the gas. But I often solved this problem just by flooring it, I know it's probably not the best for the car, but it did go away, at least for the time I was driving it for. But then when I turned it off and restarted it, it would do the same thing.

I realized that if I kept the tank full it would hardly ever jerk. But again, I am in highschool, and keeping the tank full is a little hard for me to do. I tried a lot of things already to fix it. But dry gas in the tank in case there was water in it. I changed the distributor cap, the spark plugs, the wires, and the rotor. But nothing seemed to have fixed it at all.

I'm really pretty lost, I don't work well with cars. I've never really worked on them. But I do depend on this jeep, and I love it even though it gives me a lot of grief.
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