Q: What exactly is a coral spring and what does it do for you car? And is it removed during a manifold replacement?
Hi rocoos I had a bad exhaust leak for a while finally just got it fixed replaced the manifold for like 1000. Today I was driving and my car was shutting down, felt as if transmission was just going on me, had no power. Mechanics who just fixed it said it was a coral spring and it was absolutely fine. I'm concerned because they are trying to get another 200 dollars from me and I understand it was 30 minutes of their time but I don't understand why something like that would happened that never has right after they went under my hood and replaced something.
My car has 139000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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