Q: 2003 audi a4 Quattro, car sounds fine on idle but as soon as I pull out it began to do this chugging sound with no power on accel.
I have a salvage title on my car, it's been fine, this morning as it was on idle everything was normal but as soon as I pulled out it started doing this chugging sound and had no power behind the acceleration
My car has 302000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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