Q: Rough idle start stalls
I was on my way to the drug store and was sitting at a stop light. My car started to idle very rough. It got more and more choppy. I made it to the store and when I came back out to start my car it wouldn’t run. I would start it then it stalled. Do you know what’s wrong?
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