Q: My 01 t&c died after the abs,and air.bag light came on i had to jump it prior to this

asked by on December 19, 2017

Car died after losing power all dash lights came on and it was sluggish and lost power however while running i disconnected the battery and it stayed running could my alternator still be bad

My car has 160000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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