Q: Transmission is not shifting

asked by on January 14, 2017

Car will not shift it gets to about 25 mph and won't shift I floor it and get it up to 4000 rpm and it makes a backfire noise after I do this a few times it start to run better I checked the fluid and it's ok

My car has 98000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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