Q: Idles and stalls again.

asked by on December 30, 2016

was driving home from a long highway drive and got really low on fuel and started to notice some jerking on and off the throttle this continued and then when i came ot a red light the car stalled after that it bagan bucking a nd jerking violently and would not idle on its own now at home it will start idle for 1 second and die immediattly

My car has 110 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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