Q: Warm starting Problems
The vehicle will start-up fine when cold it will run alittle rough. I can drive wherever I need to go. When I shut it off and let it sit for 10 minutes and it will start, but idle down, run rough, and stall. Will have to do that multiple times to finally get it to start and stay running. It only does it when its warm and sits.
My car has 105000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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