Q: Car shuts down quite often?
Have to keep one foot on brake pedal and the other foot on gas pedal in order for my car not to shut down when coming to stops at like stoplights and also sometimes when making sharp turns if when this happens I have to put the car in neutral to get it started again, also when putting it in park after done driving it, it shuts down immediately. Just want to know what could be causing this problem?
My car has 188886 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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