Hi Scotty and everyone I am reposting because today my car got worse and I need some help.  I have a Toyota celica 1995 ST automatic lift back has 304,000 miles. I brought this car 2 years ago from the original owner 1 owner from the dealer. He definitely did not take care of the car. But I brought it wanting to restore it. Had a lot of carbon build up and I proceeded to changed pretty much everything, cleaned the engine out.

Water pump

all belts from the dealer,

idle control valve throttle body was replaced OEM. Fuel injectors were cleaned out

PCV was replaced.

Took it to the mechanic 1 year ago and replaced the distributor and placed an after market one. After that the car was running fine. But I did still have to replace some stuff.

I recently took it on April to do

-complete tune up
-I even did an additive that cleans the motor Scotty    recommend. 505 CRO oil system treatment and fuel treatment
-Engine oil/filter oem
-transmission fluid change/filter oem
-Spark plugs Denso/spark plug wires NGK

  Parts:
-Battery Terminals positive and negative autozone
-Power steering pump AutoZone

-power steering fluid/belt oem
-rack and pinion oem
-Brake fluid/ brakes autozone
-Radiator oem
-Fans oem didn’t need to but for looks lol
-thermostat oem
Engine mounts front/rear oem

The mechanic did pressure wash the engine as well.

In the process of him working on car, the mechanic damaged the distributor he cracked the cover, and this mechanic has changed the distributor before and was running great even with all those things that needed to be replaced. When he replaced the cover still was not running fine so he replaced the whole distributor again.

But even then I explained to him that the car only in the morning struggles feels like it wants to turn off but doesn't turn off. You can see the meter going up and down once it's warmed up it's fine but does do it on and off on the road.

Took it back and he thinks it's the distributor since it's an after market one and proceeded to tell me the car will get worse and when it does, to bring it so they can find out where is the misfire is happening because they couldn’t be sure since everything was checking out fine.

And today completely turned off when I was doing a left turn. I kept placing it in park to turn it on and it would turn on but once I hit the gas pedal it would turn off luckily I was close to home but it completely would turn off couldn’t stay on.

It’s very frustrating since I paid so much to get all this done for this to happen. I don’t understand if it’s the distributor. if it was replaced with a brand new one and didn’t give me problems before with the same aftermarket distributor. I am walking in tomorrow to have a serious conversation with him to make sure to give me the car back how it came in . It’s almost like I paid someone to reck the car instead of fixing it. It was suppose to drive better than what it was. if you guys have any ideas what it can be please let me know, I would really appreciate it.

Thank you 🙏