Q: Slipping or skipping

asked by on November 28, 2016

Going down the road nissan shifts to overdrive and there is like a skipping or slipping feeling when running 60mph at 1800 rpms and when it occurs the rpms remain the same no fluctuations.

My car has 158000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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