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we dont have the car so we are taking a stab in the dark at your issues. In all reality i dont understand how that car has been daily driven for months and now in your possesion it has had never ending problems, unless your beating on it. There will be a lot of usless things you will do on the way to maintaining your DSM but you HAVE to do it for it to run. From your discription you will have to try the fix and see if it works...if not try the next thing. Its how DSMs are