Q: I bottomed my tahoe out leaving a parking lot, now its making a whining noise. what could I have done? will it be expensive?

asked by on January 27, 2017

Title pretty much explains it. I feel like the innards just got jumbled around and it needs some tightening up done here and there.. Any thoughts?

My car has 185000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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