Q: Car will start fine but will rarely shift into gear.

asked by on November 26, 2016

I hit a curb going 65 and thought I bent the frame. It was a steering knuckle causing my alignment issue. Shortly after having it replaced my car would shake while driving. Then one morning I started my car and it would only so often shift into gear. From the stick to the dash, it would recognize a change, but rarely would it transfer to the tranny and lock gears in place. I have a leak that may have messed with the range selection switch under the hood... but now my tranny doesn't seem to self drive when put in gear most of the time. It will start and Rev just fine... but no pull. Relatively cheap switch fix? Or tranny rebuild?? Every gen. of this car has similar issues.

My car has 170000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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