Q: Car stalls when put in D or R. Starts fine in P and N, some say it might be bad spark plugs but I'm not too sure what it could be.
I got to work fine today but when parking car stalls on me and when i re start it starts fine and idles good but soon as it change to R it stalls and same for when i put it in D. Starts and idles fine in N
My car has 58000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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