Q: Whenever I press on the gas there is a rattling in what sounds like the front half of the car.
Whenever I press on the gas there was a rattling coming from or what I think is under the car but I am not 100% sure I just got a muffler put on three days ago and the sound did not exist before then.
My car has 96000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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