Q: Car losses power for a second
As i am driving on the road as normal, the car stops for about a second. Everything goes dead including the speedometer and tachometer dropping down to 0 then continues back to normal. Also all the signals on the dash board light up including oil, engine, abs, vsa, seat belt, battery etc. I'm not sure what the problem is.
My car has 130000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.
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