Q: My Honda prelude keeps turning off randomly while I’m driving won’t allow me to shift or give it gas and the steering wheel will
My car occasionally will idle sometimes it has trouble starting and sometimes it shuts down while I’m driving making the steering wheel lock up and I am unable to shift or accelerate. I’ve only had the car for a few weeks but autozone told me I have bad wiring because the tail light will work one day and not work the next along with the signal lights and I have replaced the bulbs but it still doesn’t work. I’m not sure if the problems are related or not please help!
My car has 156000 miles.
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