Q: Code says Lean bank 1 and 2

asked by on November 20, 2016

Code is lean bank 1 and 2 and the first time I start it of the day it sputters for about 5 seconds and the rest of the day it starts fine but you can smell a fuel smell

My car has 105000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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