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Ok, heres a strange problem on my 95 850 Turbo wagon. I'm in the Cleveland area so we're just now getting warm weather. Several weeks ago we had a day that was in the 70's - I let my car idle for a few minutes (maybe 10 minutes)while I ran into day care to pick up a kid. When I came out the car was running but running very rough, it was missing and starting off very very slowly from stop lights, etc. I also noticed hard starting or cranking longer than normal before it started. I put some dry gas in the tank and the problem went away (maybe coincidence?) so I wrote it off as bad gas.

Over the last weekI noticed some hesitation while turning out of parking lots, but it seemed to stop when the car straightened out. I was thinking it was related to the engine RPM's, but it never did it while starting out in a straight line - I was beginning to think it was my imagination! Yesterday it was in the 70's again, I drove through the city then shut the car off for 30 minutes. After starting back up, the car ran roughfor a while,but smoothed out at higher RPM's (30+ MPH) and lost a little power when I stomped on it, but it all cleared up later. As I was on my way to work today, everything was running/starting fine until I got off the freeway - as soon as I turned off of the exit ramp (without stopping) the engine died. I coasted into a gas station and the car wouldn't start back up. It sputters while cranking like it wants to start, but it won't. No check engine light or any other light came on until the engine stalled, then everything came on.

Any ideas? It seems to be related to 70+ temperatures or at least higher temps under the hood

Brian