Q: Car shutting off
While driving the car will sputter and jerk even while stopped at light.The won’t accelerate while sputtering. The car has now started to shut off. Sometimes the car will run good with no problems and sometimes the car won’t even start. What could be wrong ?
My car has 130000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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