Q: My truck will run for various amounts of time, then as if turning off the key, the motor shuts off. Sometimes it simply restarts,
I bought this truck last august. It ran great for over a year, then it started simply shutting off on me as if i had turned off the key. Sometimes it will restart, but mostly, i have to wait for about twenty minutes before it will start again. I had the cam pos sensor changed out and it seemed to run good for about a week with only two stall outs, but both times, it restarted. Then yesterday it just went all to hell. Mechanic cannot find the problem as of yet.
My car has 193000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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