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My car's morning start; 10 mile drive to office in morning and drive back in evening are always fine, but if I drive even couple of miles in evening, it cuts out on the road intermittently. The car starts fine after it has stopped but after a mile or so it cuts out again. Then after every start it dies out. Only after keeping the car shut for 5 mins or so allows it to start correctly for some time and then drive for some more time without issues. This is happening to me nearly everyday since a month now. I showed it to a shop and they suspected transmission failure. Hard to believe since the car easily runs for some miles everyday. I had a mass air flow code for which I got that fixed by getting it cleaned. I even went for the fuel system cleaning to ensure that the gas supply is fine and the car is not dying because of irregular fuel supply. Please help.

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Cleaning a mass air flow sensor is often just a temporary fix. Since the car did well for a few days after cleaning it, that means you likely have found your problem. Mass air flow sensors are very sensitive electronic devices and a cleaning can sometimes be misleading. Some even have a slight film coating on it to protect it from contamination and the solvents in some cleaners will remove that protective coating. After few drive cycles it becomes contaminated again the problem comes back.

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