Q: What's wrong? How much will it cost to fix approximately?

asked by on January 13, 2017

TCS, abs, and check engine light are all on. The car starts but it take a while to move foward when I press gas. Today it moved but then it got stuck in place and wouldn't accelerate.. No traction/movement when pressing gas.

My car has 100000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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