Q: 06 Ford 500

asked by on March 31, 2017

Car shakes when idling and shuts off as soon as I hit the gas pedal. Everything else works fine. I have tried to see if it would throw a code, but absolutely no luck there.

My car has 155000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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