Q: Runs ruff
When car is in neutral it starts running in .5 rpms when you give gas it stays in 1.5 then drops down to .5 after like 5 min and keeps makeing noise as if it is about to stall. When I drive it has no power I did everything on it changed fuel pump checked for vacum leak changed my vacum solinoid also the ecu. Checked my Cadillac converter to and that's not it And I cleaned the egr. The car worked fine I tell I noticed it slowly started to loose power tell one point It would start.
My car has 100000 miles.
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