Car won’t drive foward

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Asked by Guru51HZM Jan 20, 2018 at 11:05 AM about the 2006 Ford Five Hundred Limited AWD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

I have a 06 Ford 500 and I’m aware that
my power steering pump and racket pinion
is bad, but now my car will stop, all lights
will come on and then the car will turn  off
when I put it into drive and try to drive
forward. It was drive backwards perfectly
fine. How can I  get it to drive forward
again?

1 Answer

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First eliminate the chance shift linkage is misaligned. Shift all the way to low, make sure dash display indicates it's in "D", or any other gear. If you're certain it's going into drive, then you either have low tranmission fluid, a bad torque converter, or a bad transmission. A bad transmission doesn't necessarily mean a rebuild, it could just be a clutch pack or solenoid. The best thing to do would be to take it to a shop that specializes in transmissions and have it computer diagnosed and serviced. I'm not entirely clear on your symptoms, if the engine is cutting off when you put it into gear, again that might be a bad TC with a worn lockup clutch. You wrote "all the [dash] lights will come on" which is just a symptom of the engine shutting off. Time to get this car into a shop.

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