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A couple weeks ago I took it through a car was and when I drove away it went haywire. The oil pressure gauge (which has been bad since I got the car) began dropping to zero and then shooting back up to full, and every time it hit zero the alarm would ring and the engine would act like it was misfiring. I pulled over and restarted it and it drove fine again until the other day. I started driving when it was rainy and damp outside and the same issue started happening. Oil pressure gauge was going back and forth like crazy and every time it hit zero the engine would cough, not able to speed up at all. The only way I could stay above 50 mph was to take very long to gain speed and use cruise to stay there, but the car would not speed up even with cruise on. The fuel gauge also started going back and forth between zero and full (and I know I had over half a tank of gas) and the RPM gauge was moving really slow and almost jumping up and down. The speedometer also started doing the same, would move up or down very slowly and almost jump between different speeds, and said I was going 15 MPH when I was stopped. Took it to the same mechanic and he said it was most likely a bad connection that was either rusted or going bad, so he cleaned up and replaced all the bad electrical connections he could find,
After getting the car from my mechanic it drove fine and I drove it back to school (about an hour from my home). The next day it was wet and rainy again and the car began doing the same thing, only worse and more frequent than before so I let it sit for the day and today it is doing the same thing again. Anyone else ever had a similar situation?