Q: My truck shit off while I was driving it and now it dosnt sound right.

asked by on June 15, 2017

I was driving my truck home the other day and it shut off and now it sounds completely different. Sounds like most the sound is comming from the engine now and idt it has all the power it did one of my ground wires on my battery broke and I fixed it but that wasn't the problem it still dosnt sound right. And I think it's skipping

My car has 72000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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