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My car was running perfect all at once it started missing really bad. So bad to the point my car shakes really bad. What could be causing this?

It runs smooth when sitting and idling but when going down the road it misses really bad. It misses so bad my car shakes all over really bad.

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Sounds like it is running on 3 cylinders! Probably a faulty coil pack!

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