Q: i have no spark at the coil

asked by on November 15, 2016

i have replaced the ckp, power state, ecu, the coil and i am out of ideas it would start up run for about 1 minute and die it did that twice before it stopped starting all together

My car has 165000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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