Q: Traction light is illuminated and when accelerating the gas petal it’ starts to jerk very annoying

asked by on February 26, 2018

Traction light is illuminated on constantly and when shifting to 1 st gear car starts to jerks hello please thanks

My car has 11300 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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