Q: What's wrong with my car?

asked by on January 12, 2017

So my car makes a loud transmissionnoise when I Rev it , when I stop at Red lights it tends to "shiver" even turn off at times. I was told it has a small tranny leak at jiffy lube .. the oil also sometimes burns he said...

My car has 218000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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