Q: Will run and drive but when revved or after stopping with drop idle and die
It drives fine and acts fine when in motion, but when sitting and idling if revved and let off it will drop below and back up to normal idle a couple of times and then die or after driving as soon as it stops it will die.
My car has 130000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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