So... The wife has a '98 Contour which overall has been a great car, no major problems and it has around 80,000 miles on it. After work yesterday she started it, but it died immediately. She tested a bit more, and found that if she held the gas down around 2000 RPMS it would stay alive, but after that it would die. So she called me and I drove over to take a look at things, and checked under the hood, and everything seemed normal. I told her I would adjust the idle(it has a screw) so she could at least drive home. Well, the screw was rusted and I didn't have enought tools on me to fix it, so I started to ghetto-rig it to idle more. It took me about 10 minutes to find stuff to ghetto-rig it, and during those 10 minutes I had her sitting in the car keeping it alive by holding the gas down to keep the RPMS high enough so it wouldn't die. After about 10 minutes I gave up trying to ghetto rig it and I told her to take her foot off the gas, and it stayed alive, seemed normal, and wasn't dying anymore. 
This morning it started up like a charm as usual, with no problems and drove just fine. Soooooo, I was wondering if anyone has any ideas what might have happened? Did the engine skip a beat and flood a cylinder or two? No Check Engines were thrown during this entire process. Was a sensor maybe screwed up? Could it have been fuel related? Any ideas?
C/N: Wifey's car would die while idyling, so we let it warm up and it ran just fine. Started up the next day just fine like nothing had happened.
This morning it started up like a charm as usual, with no problems and drove just fine. Soooooo, I was wondering if anyone has any ideas what might have happened? Did the engine skip a beat and flood a cylinder or two? No Check Engines were thrown during this entire process. Was a sensor maybe screwed up? Could it have been fuel related? Any ideas?
C/N: Wifey's car would die while idyling, so we let it warm up and it ran just fine. Started up the next day just fine like nothing had happened.
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