If you drive a car with an automatic transmission, you may have to think about what would happen if the transmission started to fail. Here are some signs of transmission problems. Slippage, it can feel like you’re driving in a certain gear and then it changes for no apparent reason also noise from the engine may change in pitch or start to sound like whining. Rough shifts, car may feel like it’s refusing to change gears as it normally does our sometimes you can feel or hear a noticeable “clunk” or “thud” when the car shifts gears.

Leaks, if your transmission is leaking the fluid is bright red, but can also be a dark red or brown, before refilling any transmission fluid specifications should be followed because overfilling can create a bigger transmission issue. Delayed engagement, If this symptom occurs you’ll notice a delay before the car actually engages into drive and starts moving forward when you shift out of park and into drive there may be a long pause where the car revs the engine as you give it gas, but it’s not moving forward as it should. Some of these symptoms can also be explained as one-time occurrences related to other problems. However, if these are recurring symptoms you can be confident that transmission slippage is your real problem.

Automatic transmission slippage is one of the more involved vehicle problems, and an amateur should not attempt to fix it. Transmission repair prices can range from $800 to fix if caught early on and to $2,000 to replace the transmission because the slippage problem was not taken care of early on.