Q: Grinding noise while accelerating what could it be?
I have a grinding kinda rattle noise when i press the gas peddle and the transmission is going to shift is not all the time put like at 2500 rpm..also the transmission drives and shift good but theres a sort of grinding noise.. Just recently started.
My car has 117000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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