Q: Why won't my Jeep run? It will crank up but won't run.
My uncle had put tin foil in one of the ports of the computer in my 1998 Jeep grand Cherokee thinking it would fix a "loose connection, it didnt work, well I got a new computer , put it in, but now it will crank but won't start, what could be the problem?
My car has 40000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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