Q: Car brakes

asked by on January 30, 2017

My brakes or roter sounds like it's rubbing, maybe metal on metal. But it's rubbing as I'm driving and even when I put the car in drive or reverse I can gas it a little and because of the rubbing my car can just stop.

My car has 184000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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