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Can an automatic car stall?
I used to own a manual shift car, and believe me, you can definitely stall them. Now that I’m in the market for a new car, all the models I’m looking at come equipped with an automatic transmission. Is there any way you can stall an automatic car?
Eric Schad · Updated on
Reviewed by Shannon Martin, Licensed Insurance Agent.
While a manual drive car is probably 100 times easier to stall, an automatic car can stall, although it’s rare. For your automatic car to stall, it would need to have significant problems with either the torque converter or the electronic control unit (ECU). On newer cars, this won’t be an issue, but older cars may be more susceptible to stalling.
If you have an older car, avoid stalling by making sure that you don’t use all of your car’s components at once. This may overload the torque converter or the ECU. For example, don’t just run the engine and then fire up the heater, headlights, and defogger all at once. Space these out to avoid overloading the system and you shouldn’t have any problems.
In the off-chance that you have to replace either the ECU or the torque converter due to consistent stalling, you could be on the hook for a big bill:
- ECU: $1,000 to $3,000
- Torque converter: $600 to $1,000
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