Q: From the park position. When i put my car in drive it has a slight stall. What could this be?

asked by on May 28, 2017

Car cranks up fine and drives better than my expectations. But from the park to drive position, it stalls out slightly. I was wondering what could this possibly be?

My car has 175000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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