Q: Car starts, but stalls while driving slow.

asked by on March 15, 2017

Car starts, but stalls while driving slow - I can get it to start in first gear(If i give it a lot of gas), but everytime i get below 15km/h the engine dies.

Toyota Aygo - 2008
My car has a manual transmission.

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