I own a 1995 Mitsubishi Mirage and i can say the most everything has been replaced. over the past 6 months i've experienced a problem where the car would start roughlt idle and die. I took it to a mecanic how reset the timing and cleaned the throttle body.two weeks later same story.I took it to another who said it may be my fuel pump and checked and it was putting out 36psi which i good for my car. so we checked the altinator** and it was running fine. finally i took it to a dealership that sold my car the tech reset the timing(and said it should have never been changed) cleaned my throttle body again and said it was fine. shortly after i moved, two weeks into my new job, car the continued with the dieing. I took it to another mechanic who kept it for 3 days doing a series of tests and came up with my problem a few days later a new ecu and idle air control ($1,332.00). everything after that ran smoothly one month later (3 days ago) it starting to idle very rough like before but did not die. I took the car on the interstate right at 60 mph it gave a jerk and ran fine the rest of the way. i came to the exit for my work got off the interstate and it run beautifully(i couldn't hear it run). I blew this off as a fluke due the recent cold weather the florida has been having. today it did the same thing and i was wondering what could it be that is causing so much greif? i also notice that a small amount of white smoke comes out apon starting.if this helps any none of this started until after i had all for my belts and hoses replaced. ive spent over 2 grand now, any imput is helpful. thanks
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19 years ago