Q: It acts like I'm running out of gas and it doesn't want to keep going but my tank is full.

asked by on February 24, 2017

My car acting like it wants to stop on me while I'm at a red light and go to take off the vehicle doesn't have any get up and go. What's wrong with it?

My car has 225000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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