Q: Car is having issues going into gear
My car won't go into drive won't go forwards or backwards in neautral and nothing in 2 only drives in L we thought it was shifting cable but we see the lever move as we shift into gears , the car cranks but we don't know if it's the neatral safety switch . How do I test it ? I need help Diagnostic test doesn't read anything with transmission so I have no clue . My car has been down for 4 days I really need my car back runing .
My car has 186000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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