Q: Car motor shuts down while driving
The motor on my car dyes out while I'm driving it. The lights and everything stays on, the steering wheel is hard to turn. Once I pull over and try to start it up. The car starts right up. I took it into the shop and the mechanics said they could find nothing wrong with it. It happened two weeks ago, three times in a 5 mile period then it didn't happen ago for about 2 weeks then it happened again. It didn't have a splash shield for under the engine, I put that on and it happened again. Thanks
My car has 158000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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