Q: Transmission light urgent light came on

asked by on January 29, 2018

I was driving my car has been driving fine and than the transmission urgent light popped on and when the car was turned off and then back on it hasn’t come back on it was around a day ago and I’ve driven short distances since and it’s been fine. A few times it has taken a little longer to start than normal.

My car has 125000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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