Q: yesterday morning noticed my transmission fluid was leaking, I added more according the specs, and it ran better, today there is s
yesterday morning noticed my transmission fluid was leaking, I added more according the specs, and it ran better, today there is still a leak and it is twice as hard to drive. It will not go past 50 mph or 2nd gear without over revving into 5-5500rpm. even after adding more fluid and transmission stop leak, it did not help any. have noticed a misfire in my engine as well, a leak in my exhaust manifold and now my power steering fluid is leaking significantly as well. Any thoughts on a corrective issue for this or why all issues happened so suddenly within the last 2 days?
My car has 200000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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