Q: ok my 99 tahoe truck would drive over 35 mph got the problem fixd. no its a little over 10 months later and its doing it again but

asked by on March 24, 2017

wont drive over 35 mph go it fixed 10 months ago. Now it wont drive over 50 mph, when doing 50 -60 mph it will act like it wants to turn off but wont' i can get the gas to make it go and it will but then will still spudder and act like it wants to turn off. Will drive over 40 mph fine though

My car has 174352 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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