Q: AT oil temp light is flashing (Subaru Forster 2011) after a driving the car for while?
(Subaru Forster 2011) AT OIL TEMP is flashing after driving the car for a certain time. smell can be smiled from the gearbox maybe.
gearbox was changed recently.
My car has 200000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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