TN-CLS

Does anyone with auto trans feel like it is hard to put their cl in drive or any other gear for that matter when it is cold outside?????? Just wondering if it is just me??

spiderman3098

mine shifts hard when its really cold like i put it in reverse i feel like a huge jolt same with when i put it into drive and it shifts gears but it norm last for like 2 min and its gone when its warm out

BigLizard

Yup...the past week my car did that when it was super cold. I just let the tranny and engine warm up. That's your best bet.

harlowlax

ya, i posted about this in nov i think. Its hard to shift out of park and through the whole thing.... I havent gotten it checked out yet though

oneilc

I have the same thing but I think it's a result of my spilling mt dew into the shifter a few years back. I tried to clean it out the best I could but apparently it wasn't enough.

The shifter moves easily during the summer but during the winter months when it's less than 50 degrees out the shifter feels like it's glued in place. The mt dew thing happened shortly after I got the car so I never got to experience how the shifter naturally acted during the winter. Once the car warms up it's not a problem but that's literally after 15 minutes of highway driving (enough time for the heat to reach and thaw the shifter). I dunno ... kinda sucks. Guess I'll just have to sell my car during the summer.

YeuEmMaiMai

have not had that problem but like the others have mentioned shift into reverse is really bad when cold and this usually means death to transmission.....lol

BigLizard

if that were to hold true my tranny would have died 40,000 miles ago.

just about every car I've driven when it's super cold shifts hard into reverse when it's uber cold and when the engine and tranny is cold as well.

smooth CL-in

Yeah, I have the same issue. I called the dealer one day and they told me that it could be the cable that links from shither to the transmission. I have to bring the car in to verify. That part is not covered under warranty.

treyster

That's weird, I've never had that problem

LOUISJAMES10

When it gets cold outside the shifter and the linkage and everything else contracts and makes moving parts a little harder to move until the heat and friction loosens things up especially the viscous fluids.

areyouexperienced?

I actually discovered some grim residue on my shifter belt thing, that was making it hard to shift at times, but it was probably soda spillage or something.