Q: My car is jerking and hesitating when accelerating

asked by on November 10, 2016

Hi, my name is safwan and i had innova car. After the day i service that car, my car got jerking suddenly and i can only drive from 70km/h to 60km/h till 20km/h. While jerking... when i push the accelerate pedal ...the jerking going more bad and the meter also not increase.

My car has 140000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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