Q: I need to figure out what's going on with my Nissan Altima
I'm trying to figure out what's going on with my nissan altima it has been making a gitter noise when I have my car in drive whenever I'm at a stoplight or a stop sign it acts like it wants to turn off and a couple times when I have been driving on a highway it has turned off I waited for a couple of minutes and it turns back on I changed my spark plugs and my coils and it still makes that sound I tooken it to autozone to put the computer and it won't give a code
My car has 140000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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