Q: High rpms while in park

asked by on March 20, 2018

My car idles up to 3.5 rpms while in park not all the time though and also when in drive it sometimes idles 2.5 without pressing the gas. The car will get up to 45 mph with pressing the gas at all

My car has 153249 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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