For the most part this car has been well maintained and serviced, but today my car started having significant problems, and I think its the transmission.
When I start to drive the engine seems to shake/rattle, unless I accelerate VERY slowly. And when it gets real bad, I need to turn off the car, and start over, and that seems to work. After passing that first gear, it does seem to be OK, just whenever I need to stop.
Very recently the transmission fluid was completly flushed (or so they claim). Today I took my car to a friends shop, and he hooked up the computer and it give him an error about the solenoid (which seems right, given what I searched on this board). He also looked at the transmission fluid and said it was dirty.
Any ideas/thoughts on this? I'm on a very tight budget. How likely is it that the problem is this transmission solenoid? How expensive is this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!