Q: My Toyota Avalon 2004 turned off when I put on drive.
Yesterday I turned my car on and it was fine. After I switched to drive it went off. I turned back on and started working fine. It's the first time doing that. I don't know if i should be worried or no because after that its been working fine.
My car has 16000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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