Q: Toyota cynos is sputtering and stalls out.

asked by on January 15, 2017

Hi. Car starts when cold easily. Have to keep car high rev when coming to a stop or car stalls. If stalls or you turn off even after say 5mins of driving very had to start again. When u finally get it started it spits and splutters and keep high rev or stalls. Thankyou

My car has 160000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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