my car died on the way to work today just kinda shut off no it will do everything it suppose to do except for actually start. my dad checked for spark i dont know how but i guess he did what is the proper way to do this and what do i look for? what are some possible problems that i can check on my own with out some expensive mechanic i am pretty good with fixing cars just not finding the problems . so how do i check for spacrk and what other procedures can i do to check more things