Q: Bad gas mileage

asked by on January 25, 2017

2 days ago I noticed when I stopped at red. light and it was llike missing or choking out, today I noticed the black suite all over the tailgate and when i bent down its like solid gas smell out the dual tailpipe s and burning gas like crazy do you think distributor and plugs? or what?

My car has 301900 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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