Q: Car stalls and has trouble restarting

asked by on February 02, 2017

Driving down the road the car suddenly stalls. Sometimes it restarts right away but other times won't start for hours. When the car stalls the SLIP light comes on. Have you heard of this problem?

My car has 100000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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