jake5270's blog post - Another Saturday update (yawns).

Tomorrow will make two Sundays ago I bought some gasoline with water in it. The next day it was minus 12 degrees and the water froze in the tank. It took until Thursday after that before it thawed enough for me to be able to drive. Even then it kept wanting to freeze up and die on me while I was driving. I finally got some Heet (brand name) to dry up the water. Okay, now it should run right, right? WRONG! That xxxxxx everything into the fuel injectors. The car would run as long as I kept my foot on the gas pedal (except while idling in neutral or park). SO, last night on the way home from work I stopped at a convenience store/gas station (the same one where I got the bad gasoline) and purchased a bottle of STP fuel injector cleaner. After informing the clerk of the reason for said purchase, I dumped the whole bottle in my gas tank and drove home. By the time I arrived home the car was purring like a tiger again. Took the car out on errands today and no problems. What a relief!

Cured my engine woes for $6.30. Just in time, too... more snow today (4 inches) and sub freezing temps coming in a couple of days.

Ah, life in the MidWest!

Another in a series of reasons why I'm on the lookout for a driver.