Q: Car won't start

asked by on January 17, 2017

My car has no problem starting up when it's warm weather but when it's cold it will not I have got a new computer for it did not work I made new keys still didn't work an from time to time in the cold it will start up an run for a few seconds but then die I can't figure it out so what could it be?
My car has an automatic transmission.

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