Q: I have a 2003 mini cooper and when I put it on drive it goes in neutral and back into drive.
I was driving my car from work to my house it wasn't up to 7 minutes the car stopped on the road I kept on press in the clutch but it didn't move but there was sound like I was giving the car a warm up in the morning ,so I turned of the car and started it and put it on drive the car reversed I put it on neural it reverse also , so I had to truck the car home but this morning the car started fine but am scared to move it any further it might repeat it self
My car has an automatic transmission.
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