Q: Car only drives in reverse now

asked by on October 05, 2016

Car wasn't going into drive gear but would go in gear 1, 2, 3 and reverse. Now it only goes in reverse. Whats my problem

My car has 155000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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