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Took car to Midas because muffler was making bad noises. They changed a muffler pipe. In additional, they sold me a fuel injection cleaning for $100. Also, a new air filter and oil change. I went to pick up the car two hours later and it wouldn't start. They opened up the engine head (or cylinder head) after seeing the spark plugs were wet with oil ... they replaced the valve cover gaskets and cleaned the spark plugs. The car then started and drove like a dream. I wanted to double-check that it would start fine again, so I pulled over, turned the car off, waited a minute ... the car wouldn't start again. After a few tries it started, so I immediately brought it back to Midas. They used this tank and sprayed Freon on the distributor and it started immediately ... they said my distributor was bad (had a flat spot) ... I explained that I had replaced the entire distributor only two months ago and I've no had any problems with it. In fact, my car ran fine, except for the muffler. Since I left on Saturday, the first crank of the day to start is slow, but the it fires up with no problem. If i let it sit for several hours, it'll struggle to start the first time, but it does ... then after that, I could turn it on and off 100 times and it would start fine. I spent $834 at Midas (exhaust pipe, fuel injection cleaning, two Fusion tires, wheel rotation and balance, oil change and air filter, plus tax.

So, what happened at Midas? 1) How could oil have gotten / be getting into the cylinders? 2) Could it have anything to do with flushing the fuel-injection system? 3) Could flushing the fuel-injection system cause any independent problem that's affecting the turnover? Mechanic insists the problems are new and mysteriously and coincidentally started in his parking lot ... no fault of his. What do you all think?