Q: 99 s-10 will drive by manually shifting from 2nd to drive?

asked by on August 10, 2017

99 S-10 will not pull itself in drive from stop, but does move in 1st and 2nd gear, shifts manually, then when in drive will not downshift to passing gear.

My car has 165000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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