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Transmission Stuck in Reverse
The dealership is telling me it's not the linkage so they want to replace the whole trans ($4,200+) :bigroll: Guess I'll tow it home and pull it myself. Any recommendations on rebuilders?
The car is actually in Chicago. I few to Las Vegas for the CES show and then back to O'hare. I got about 5 miles from the airport and heard a clunk and experienced what felt like a loss of power. Pushed in clutch, went to neutral and rolled off to the side of the highway. When I let out the clutch (in neutral) the car started going backwards. When I put it in first it felt like it was in 2 gears (1 & R) at the same time. No problems as long as the clutch was depressed. Called OnStar and got a tow.
I tried moving the shifter and could get into all forward gears but not reverse (couldn't physically get the shifter into that gate.) Before the wrecker came something must have moved and everything started working okay. I could pull forward and back and shift into all gears. I even drove it up onto the flatbed to have it towed.
Had it towed to the dealership. Drove it around the dealer lot and up and down the road with no apparent problems. Decided to try and get home but as soon as I started down a road where I could shift into a higher gear (5th to be exact) another clunk and now in reverse for good. Towed back to dealership
The car is actually in Chicago. I few to Las Vegas for the CES show and then back to O'hare. I got about 5 miles from the airport and heard a clunk and experienced what felt like a loss of power. Pushed in clutch, went to neutral and rolled off to the side of the highway. When I let out the clutch (in neutral) the car started going backwards. When I put it in first it felt like it was in 2 gears (1 & R) at the same time. No problems as long as the clutch was depressed. Called OnStar and got a tow.
I tried moving the shifter and could get into all forward gears but not reverse (couldn't physically get the shifter into that gate.) Before the wrecker came something must have moved and everything started working okay. I could pull forward and back and shift into all gears. I even drove it up onto the flatbed to have it towed.
Had it towed to the dealership. Drove it around the dealer lot and up and down the road with no apparent problems. Decided to try and get home but as soon as I started down a road where I could shift into a higher gear (5th to be exact) another clunk and now in reverse for good. Towed back to dealership
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Here are a couple of pic's from inside the trans. One shows the reverse gear that attempted to weld itself to the shaft. The other, which is a little dark, is all the shavings stuck to the magnets on the bottom of the trans.
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Here are a couple of pic's from inside the trans. One shows the reverse gear that attempted to weld itself to the shaft. The other, which is a little dark, is all the shavings stuck to the magnets on the bottom of the trans.
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That's crazy! Glad you got a bada$$ trans from RPM though! If mine ever gives up the ghost that's what I'll be doing.
If mine ever gives up the ghost that's what I'll be doing.
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