Q: While driving the decides not to shift.
So if I start the car up or sometimes just while driving the car will decide not to shift. So it will stay in that one gear. Usually I have to turn the car off and started again so it will shift like normal.
My car has 165000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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