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Car will not drive forward or reverse after shifting.

Automatic Transmission. Shifting lever into drive or reverse will not go into gear....

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Make sure the shift cable hasn't come loose from the mechanism on the transmission and that it's moving as it should when the shift lever is being moved.

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