Q: Transmission problems

asked by on September 29, 2016

I can not get my shifter to lock in any of the top gears which is (1,3,5) it will stay in second fourth and reverse would like to know the problem and cost to fix it?

My car has 167897 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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