Q: its idling extremely rough, it stalls, and when i revv it, it chokes and stalls, it seems like this a common problem with these

asked by on February 01, 2017

I would like to know some sort of checklist I should follow. I already checked for vacuum leaks and there are none. I need to know what other possibilities there are.

My car has 150000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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