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(Message started by: cscars1 on Nov 29^th, 2006, 12:18pm)

Title: autobox beyond me
Post by cscars1 on Nov 29^th, 2006, 12:18pm

hi
i had a problem on my car with the EGR valve , now sorted

so i decided to adjust the headlights and give the lens a clean inside the light
fine so i went to my local garage and got the lights set properly with a beam setter

whilst driving into the garage the car bumped up and down the rolling road " brake tester " i set the head lights to perfect as they only lit the front bumper before
i reversed out of the garage up and down the rolling road
when i got out side i noticed that the reverse gear was not working and the forward drive was naff too

i nursed the car home in second as it felt like clutch slip in drive

i left the car overnight and started to cry at the thought of spending several hours changing the gear box

BUT the next day the car seems fine . i phoned up the local auto dealer and they said the best way to test the auto box is to reverse up a steep hill if it judders , the box is naff so i went out to test this and it was not juddering so box is ok i phoned the automatic people again and told them thatr the car did not judder in reverse

so they said perhaps it was the coil packs on the engine because they are link with the ecu

has any one else ever had this problem

Title: Re: autobox beyond me
Post by mr._floppy on Nov 29^th, 2006, 5:55pm

How long does it take to engage drive when you move the selector from Park to Drive or Park to Reverse ?

Longer than 3-4 seconds ?, the box is well past its best.

Title: Re: autobox beyond me
Post by cscars1 on Nov 29^th, 2006, 6:30pm

it use to snatch into reverse ,but since the loss of gears it goes in straight away and smoothly now

on driving it goes up and down the box ok and is smooth when using kick down before it use to rev then go into a lower gear

now very smooth in kick down

do i wait till it breaks down completely or change it to be on the safe side
this is the question i keep asking myself

Title: Re: autobox beyond me
Post by TiberiuS on Nov 29^th, 2006, 7:44pm

If it's working at the mo I'd let it go for a while and see how it behaves, save yourself a lot of work ;)

I'm no autobox expert but on the cars I've known a dying autobox normally means complete loss of gears or heavy gunshot like thumps in and out of gear, if yours is smooth surely the bands and solenoids are ok?

It isn't low on fluid is it? Loss of drive/juddering could also be down to this, the symptoms you describe could lay elsewhere outside the box.

Dave2302 would know but he's awol for the moment ;)

Regards, Bruce.

Title: Re: autobox beyond me
Post by jonnycab on Nov 30^th, 2006, 1:55am

..."So they said, perhaps it was the coil packs"....

Back on the subject of coil packs again eh ;).....I won't be betting anything on it this time though ;D

Seriously though, I doubt the coil packs would cause loss of drive in the autobox,....faulty coil packs will usually cause misfire :)