Q: Stalling when put in drive

asked by on June 09, 2017

My car stalls out the min. I put in drive I have done nothing to it except for changing the oil and I bought the car used the oil pressure sending unit went up but had it changed now it wants to stall out when I put it in drive why

My car has 181547 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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