My car dies when I come to a stop?

Tiny
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  • 1998 CHEVROLET CAVALIER
  • 4 CYL
  • 2WD
  • AUTOMATIC
  • 81,000 MILES
1998 Chevy Cavalier mileage: 81,000. My car dies when I come to a stop, once it's warmed up after having been driven for about fifteen to twenty five minutes. It's an automatic, but the characteristics of when it dies is like having a manual shift car and leaving it in third or fourth gear and coming to a stop without engaging the clutch. It gets jerky and then dies. I immediately put it in neutral and it starts right up, but when I try to put it in D [drive] again it dies as if I put it in a higher gear. What could be causing this and how can it be fixed? I've thought about changing the transmission fluid, but will that be enough?
Friday, November 19th, 2010 AT 11:47 PM

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Tiny
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Your car has a lock-up torque converter in the transmission. It locks-up only in high gear. It is supposed to disengage at lower speeds. Yours is not disengaging. There is probably a valve in the transmission “hanging up”. Having the transmission serviced with new fluid may help the problem. Next step, the valve body will have to be removed and cleaned paying special attention to the TCC solenoid. The TCC solenoid may have to be replaced.
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Thursday, July 1st, 2021 AT 10:54 AM

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