Q: I was driving my 2000 Tahoe 5.3 4wd .. and it just shut off while I was driving .. tried giving it a jump and it cranks but don't

asked by on December 23, 2017

I so typed that in the wrong column

My car has 183000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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