Q: Why would all my gears go forward including neutral and reverse.

asked by on January 22, 2017

I went playing in the snow and got stuck now reverse neutral will only go forward and park feels like your in gear with your foot on the break. it has a p0715 and p0791 code.

My car has 130000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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