I had to take the van in to the shop again this week 🙁 I pay the guy his 500$ish dollars and drive away. Well the whole way home the car was idling really high and driving a lot worse than when I took it in. I just kept getting madder and madder as I drove because my car was definitely not fixed! Benji kept asking why we were ‘bumping’, to which I had no answer. The car place was closed at this point so I sat on the couch and let it get to me for the next few hours – thinking that this guy must have messed up or he better not just tell me I have an old car and deal with it. At 10pm I decide I better go to the grocery store now so that I can deal with the car in the morning. I wanted to take the van to hear the symptoms again so I could be knowledgeable when I call the guy in the morning. I turn the engine on and listened and then decided to pop the hood and see if anything looked weird. I looked under and found a hose that was not attached to anything. So I picked it up and it shocked me pretty good! (that was the stupid part of this story) Then I got smart and turned the car off and then found a place for that hose that was just lying there unattached. (It was one of the Spark Plugs) I plugged it in and went to the store and my van ran like a charm!! I really should be a mechanic 🙂 or at least get a little money back for my troubles. O’well – at this point I’m just glad that something else wasn’t broken.