Q: I was told I'm having a cold soak and I need to replace my starter and then have a ecm reprogramming is this true.I was also tol
Issue I'm having is a cold soak.I was told to replace the starter and then have a ecm reprogramming is this true and why would I have to replace the starter.
My car has 166000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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