Q: Car stalls

If your car is equipped with a Cross Traffic Alert system (not all Fusions have this feature), it provides you with important information about traffic conditions to improve your safety. It’s really all about detecting traffic, pedestrians and other obstacles...

Overheating can be caused by a number of things that result in smoke or steam coming from the engine bay. Assuming your engine didn't catch on fire, what you are seeing may be steam; hot fluid escaping and boiling off...

Hi there. With the correct hitch and equipment being used on the vehicle, according to specifications, you can safely tow a maximum of 3600 pounds. If you add any more than this you will surpass what this van's towing capacity...

Hello, thanks for writing in. The horn is being set off by the body control module. This module contains the anti-theft controls and if it does not get a remote signal to disarm the system then this will occur. There...

Hi there. If you can turn on the engine, then the engine did not lock. This could be a cause of the transmission having an issue. Check the transmission shifter cable (https://www.yourmechanic.com/services/shift-selector-cable-replacement) to see if it has broken or came...

Hi there. One or more of the drive belt pulleys may be bent causing the engine to have erratic rpm's when at idle and causing the engine to stall out at times. Open the hood with the engine running and...

Shaking or vibration (https://www.yourmechanic.com/services/engine-is-shaking-pulsating-or-vibrating-inspection) may be caused by many different things such as faulty spark plugs, poor fuel pressure or misfires. Other things such as a faulty idle air control valve (https://www.yourmechanic.com/services/idle-control-valve-replacement) may cause the engine idle to drop below...

There are a number of things that may cause a rough idle. A rough idle (https://www.yourmechanic.com/services/car-idle-is-rough-inspection) may be caused by things such as low fuel pressure, low voltage to the fuel injectors, dirty fuel injectors, a vacuum leak, a faulty...

The code related to the ignition module suggests that either the ignition module itself is bad or the connections to it are not good resulting in erratic ignition timing and potentially misfires. In some cases, depending on how the ignition...