Q: Hello,

asked by on October 16, 2016

Hello, while driving in the highway,car would not accelerate when i put in gas, then it would reapond and take off and then It finally turned off. I would not turn back on. I jumped started,it worked ,however as i was driving to the shop ti get it checked out out, it started losing revs and not reaponding again and then.."boom" someway somehow my muffler blew up towards the tips. What could be the main reason for this?

My car has 113000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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