Q: My car won't shift and it's idling high.

asked by on February 28, 2017

I just replaced my transmission not too long ago and it worked fine. Now it's having trouble shifting. It shifts to first and second then it stops. What could it be?

My car has 149130 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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