Q: Interior lights and the stereo cuts off and on while the carnival is on, and now it won't move when U put it in gear...
When the car is on the interior lights and the stereo cuts off and on, and when U cuts the car off the park lights come back on something, and now when U put it in gear it don't go...
My car's transmission is unknown to me.
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