Q: My car keeps shutting off and shaking and not wanting to excel

asked by on November 29, 2016

I am driving my car and it's shaking and shuts off I have to hammer the pedal just to get it to go then it says sos get the car to a workshop what could the issue be

My car has 10030 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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