Q: How do I fix this
My cars having an idle issue it will not idle what do I do? Also I have black smoke coming from my exhaust and I don't know what to do to fix that? And then I have gas in my oil and I don't know how that got there how do I fix all three of these problems?
My car has an automatic transmission.
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