Q: Ideas of what my problem is?

asked by on December 16, 2016

I drove 40 miles down the road, turned car off it say for and hour I come back out to start it with a loud clanking noise coming from under hood. I took it to autozone had codes of misfire in 6 and a bad coil on F. It is idleing very rough, hard to accelerate but doesn't stall.

My car has 100000 miles.

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