Q: Car Starts fine, but shakes violently and loudly when shifted into any gear and wont move

asked by on May 22, 2017

Car starts fine. When put into any gear, cars shakes, sputters, goes bonkers until put back in park. Car also will not move. Put it in drive and it just revved up until it came back down to start acting crazy again. What is it?

My car has 142500 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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