Q: My car won't start it's a 2002 Mitsubishi Galant ES 2.4 l. And the code was P0403

asked by on January 23, 2018

My car is not starting it sounds like it wants to start over but it does not, the codes red p0403

My car has 210000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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