Q: Fuel issue?

asked by on January 19, 2017

The car was parked running fine and the next morning the car won't start and no sign of firing I asked around and they are saying Inertia switch ,Not sure what kind of v6 it has but I need to find the inertia switch I checked under the kick panel and it's not there and wondering if there's another possible place where it could be or is there a procedure on certain models

My car has 123000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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