Q: Transmission slipping

asked by on April 18, 2017

My car slips when I hit the gas. It's not when I put the car in drive, just when I take off and start moving it's when im going from 20 to 30 when I hit about 40 and on up the car is fine it don't do it at all

My car has 124711 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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