Q: Vehicle intermittently dies when coming to a stop

asked by on November 01, 2016

2006 Suzuki Reno 2.0 D-Tec

Vehicle intermittently dies when coming to a stop. then starts back with no problems. Sometimes it will drive all day without an occurrence.

My car has an automatic transmission.

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