Q: Car klonks out at the lights.

asked by on July 07, 2016

The car switches off every now and then at the lights. When it switches off generally you can switch on straight away if you give it a rev. It quite annoying because you can't really tell when it's going to happen generally not in very ideal locations.

My car has 200000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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