Q: Throttle body

asked by on January 18, 2018

My problem is 3 days ago my truck wouldnt accelerate so we went and changed the throttlr body sensor so we put it and it still doing the same it does not accelerate at all what else could it be

My car has 29800 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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