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Originally Posted by bengerman
driving my car home today, it starts making a disgusting noise (mostly klunky, a little squeeky mixed in) no smoke, rpms & engine temp both norm, acceleration wayyy low.
then i come to a stop light, and the car just turns off.
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I'm going to buck the crowd and go with a damaged torque converter and possibly damaged transmission. The torque converter is what allows your engine to idle while you're at a dead stop. If it's locked up your engine will die when you come to a stop because the torque converter will stall the engine. It's also responsible for transferring power from the engine to the transmission, so you'd get bad acceleration without anything showing wrong with your engine.