Q: Transmission shifting delay

asked by on November 10, 2016

i bought a clean 1999 dodge dakota v6 3.9 magnum auto. sometime it start off in second gear. sometime it stay in second till i beat it almost to redline left the gas and go normally then it shift into 3rd. 99% of time he wont shift into 4th gear. sometime , rarely , at 80-90 km/h it feel like a mini overdrive that lower the rpm from 2.3k to 2k or 2.1k but it is not the 4th gear.

My car has 148000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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