Q: Changed our intake now our car is sputtering and acting like it wants to stall when we stop
We changed our cars intake yesterday and as soon as we started driving it we would go to stop and it would shake and sputter and act like it was going to stall every time we stopped
My car has 180000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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