Q: My car seems like it's flooding when you start it even though it's fuel injected? Why would this be?
My car seems like it's flooding when you start it even though it's fuel injected? Why would this be? When you try to start the car when the engine is warm it floods and is very difficult to start
My car has 240000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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