Q: Stalling issue and wont start for 30 mins.

asked by on January 05, 2017

after 300kms journey the car stalls and looses power the exelerator fails, after putting teh car off for like 30mins it starts to move again, then stalls aain after 20kms
My car has a manual transmission.

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