Q: What could be the problem ?

asked by on January 02, 2017

My car, doesn't move forward when I press on the gas but it moves forward by itself, but when I put it in reverse it goes perfectly. Plus, I changed my oil pan and the oil for the transmission recently.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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