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Driving down the road, the car dies along with power steering. Car will turn over but will not start

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Without the check engine light being on its going to be hard to trouble shoot . im assuming it has plenty of gas . i can take one shot at it most cars will run and run poorly with the mass air flow pig tail disconnected . un hook it and see if it will at least run .if its running plug it up again if the car dies or even runs worse that your problem. could be alot of things . when the engine dies you loose power stearing and powerbrakes . so probley not the problem there . could also be throttle position sensor or idle air ajustment valve . but before you mess with that stuff realy need a code, timing belt could of whent etc etc.

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