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The camaro ran better than ever getting to JM's yesterday. So fast forward...I'm leaving JM's house at about 1:30am, get onto 46 and I got on it a little bit, nothing crazy or stupid, just harder than I normally would. I let off and let it coast a bit then step on the gas again and nothing. Step on it harder, nothing..as soon as I let off, the car jumps. I pull into target p-lot and the car dies. starts right up but won't idle right and when I'd give it gas nothing would happen. I would let off and the rpm's would jump then drop. I waited a few minutes and tried again, same thing but only I'd rev it and it would sputter to like 1500 rpm and from 2000 and up it was fine, but I would hear an occasional miss. Meanwhile no check engine light, only when it would stall. I waited a little longer, started right up and seemed ok, I figured I could limp it home (8 miles or so). Get back onto 46 and nothing, I would give it gas and nothing would happen and it idled like crap. So the one time I don't have my toolbox with me, I need a wrench. I called JM and she came with an adjustable, I figured it was ECM related so maybe if I disconnected the battery it would reset and I would be ok. This has happened weeks ago, but not as bad. It would rev weird but I'd shut it down and it was then fine. I figured it was ground related, so I cleaned them all up, added thicker wire etc and I've been fine. So JM gets to me and as I'm disconnecting the battery a cop pulls up. It started right up and idled good, I figured it was fine. After a few seconds it idled rough and wouldnt rev so I told JM to follow me, I'd try and get it to her house (down 46 a little ways). I get about 1.5 miles from her house not being able to rev past 1500 rpm and the car is idling bad, at this point wont rev at all and I'm stuck. So I got it into levitz parking lot right on the highway. JM has AAA, so we called and asked if her coverage would cover my car, they said yes. This redneck from criger towing company shows up oblivious to the world. It's about 4am at this point. First off he backs the truck up and the boom isn't low enough and he hits my front GFX. I yelled to him to stop but it was too late, he just hit it and it folded under, so now that needs to be repainted. We get close to my house, he wants to stop for dunkin donuts. He runs inside and I look over at the trip odometer and it says 8.8 miles. The coverage is first 3 miles are free and anything after is $4.50/mile, so I'm figuring it'll be roughly $40. We get to my house and he writes stuff on a paper and tells me $75. I looked at him and asked how is that? He tells me it was 22 miles. I said to him when you went into dunkin donuts the trip odometer said 8.8 miles and my house isn't that much further. So he looked all confused and hitting buttons on the dash and changed it to the regular odometer and told me it was however many miles before. So he looks at the paper and goes "oh right, I forgot to subtract this $4.50, just give me $60" There was no receipt or any formal writing of this, it was chicken scratch he had on a piece of paper, my word against his. So I pay him and as he unloads my car, he pulls the boom away and my car starts rolling down the driveway. I was abe to stop it and throw it in park. Moron. After thinking about it and talking to JM and my dad I decided to drive to levitz and come back the exact same way to mark the miles. Sure enough right at DD my trip odometer was 8.8 and total distance to my house was 11.4 miles. I should have had to pay for 8.4 miles, roughly $36. So I have to call AAA back tomorrow to file a complaint and see what can be done, at least about my front GFX. This was the only time I got to bed at 5am with no partying involved....horrible night.