Q: While i was driving down the street my engine shut off on me.

asked by on April 05, 2017

I was driving down the street and the whole engine just shut off on me i put it in park turned the ignition off waited a few minutes then it started back up again but proceeded to do the same thing just a few minutes later.

My car has 160000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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