Q: I have a 99 Lexus es300 . My car won't go into D , N , R only L . It just happened randomly and the diagonistic doesnt say trnmisn

asked by on December 11, 2017

My car just randomly stopped while I was driving . I had to pull over the car wouldn't go into drive , or reverse , neautral seems like the cars wheels are glued to the ground can't push the car forward or backwards , it barley drives in L and not in 2 I'm not sure what's wrong . I got a flush 4 months ago my transmission fluid was low (don't know why it shouldn't be low considering I just got a flush) . The diagnostic code reader only gives me these codes , but nothing that has to do with transmission p0171 ,p0325, p0330, p1155, p0171, p1155 . My dad suggest shifting module cable is unplugged or I need new one .

My car has 186000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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