Q: Hi, Steven how much would you charge me to replace a camshaft sensor, and a crankshaft sensor on a 2002 Cadillac Deville? Im locat

asked by on March 14, 2017

My car works perfectly I've just noticed that as of lately it's stalls and cuts off when I crank it and the other day when I was taking my wife to work and I was at a stoplight the car stalled and cut off and I have to start it back up and thank God I was able to get her to work which is right up the street but the next day the car started up and it wouldn't crank and it wont stay started and it's been doing that for the past 2-3 days it starts up just fine and it cuts right back off. When I purchased a vehicle and put it on the machine it told me that I needed those two sensors so I'm imagining that's exactly what I need and as I read the article on the website other people had the same symptoms as I'm having. The problem was the crankshaft and or the camshaft but in my case I need both

My car has 80000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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