Q: 2006 Altima 2.5 turns over but will not start.

asked by on September 11, 2017

My wife Altima was running great, a few days ago.she got home and parked it around 3 pm. I got home at five and she asked me to go to the store.

My car has 165000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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