Q: My car cut's off when you drive and hard to get it back cranked up
I be driving down road and my car just shut off l tried to start it back. And it hard to cranked it back up I also when coming to a stop I have to put my feet on brake and accelerate
My car has 200000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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