Transmission
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Transmission
Today, on my 40 minute drive to work. Which I drive three times a week. I was at a red light and I proceeded to go and my car wouldn't go over 20mph and my RPM was hitting 5 so I went to pull over and my car like kicked back in and started driving normal again. First time this has done this. I have 50K miles on it. Do you think its my transmission slipping?
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Was the engine seeming like it was losing power or sputtering when you tried to go above 20mph? Did you get any check engine light?
I ask because my wife's car (not a Lexus) had something similar and it turned out to be a random camshaft sensor going bad, which in turn threw a check engine light along with the camshaft sensor intermittent code and an engine cylinder misfire. Thankfully it wasn't anything with the transmission and the car had over 120K on it. But in your case at 50K miles, I wouldn't imagine that being the case...
I ask because my wife's car (not a Lexus) had something similar and it turned out to be a random camshaft sensor going bad, which in turn threw a check engine light along with the camshaft sensor intermittent code and an engine cylinder misfire. Thankfully it wasn't anything with the transmission and the car had over 120K on it. But in your case at 50K miles, I wouldn't imagine that being the case...
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Was the engine seeming like it was losing power or sputtering when you tried to go above 20mph? Did you get any check engine light?
I ask because my wife's car (not a Lexus) had something similar and it turned out to be a random camshaft sensor going bad, which in turn threw a check engine light along with the camshaft sensor intermittent code and an engine cylinder misfire. Thankfully it wasn't anything with the transmission and the car had over 120K on it. But in your case at 50K miles, I wouldn't imagine that being the case...
I ask because my wife's car (not a Lexus) had something similar and it turned out to be a random camshaft sensor going bad, which in turn threw a check engine light along with the camshaft sensor intermittent code and an engine cylinder misfire. Thankfully it wasn't anything with the transmission and the car had over 120K on it. But in your case at 50K miles, I wouldn't imagine that being the case...
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