"I don't always fail but when I do it's middle of nowhere & -30C" - Transmission
01-17-2018, 08:53 PM
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"I don't always fail but when I do it's middle of nowhere & -30C" - Transmission
This happened a couple weeks ago, thought it'd be cool to share.
You can hear the transmission downshift from 5th to a low gear a few times and eventually whine.
You can hear the transmission downshift from 5th to a low gear a few times and eventually whine.
01-17-2018, 09:13 PM
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Failed halfway driving home on my 6 hour trip back from the holidays. Took the back roads and there's of course no city with more than a population of 8000 around.
Had a choice of deciding where to tow it... 200km west back to my parents house for it to just sit, 220km east to my city to get it fixed there, or 253km south to a transmission shop in Toronto that lots of Acura TL guys there vouched for due to price and quality of work. Fixing it in my city would cost well over $2000 and I wouldn't even know what shop would do it, or their reputation. I chose to get it fixed at a shop that will do it right and for a great price.
$1600 ($1300 USD) and a couple days later I have a rebuilt transmission put in and got my car back in the same condition (biggest fear is my car getting damaged when worked on).
Couple kinks though I'm hoping to get fixed. Called the shop about it already and they want me to drive (4 hours) back to drive it and check it out themselves.
- Steering wheel is slightly crooked, it drives straight with the wheel crooked (u-joint between column and rack probably just needs a minor adjustment)
- Transmission whines like crazy
- Burning smell whenever I come home and park my car in my garage
- ATF level is a bit over an inch over the upper dot on dipstick
- On the freeway applying a little gas makes the RPMs jump up to 2300 RPM and goes back down to 2100 (but the car doesn't accelerate) as if it's slipping.
If I'm really slow and gradual on the gas pedal it doesn't do it though.
They are a great shop and very honest and kind so I'm hoping everything is worked out.
Had a choice of deciding where to tow it... 200km west back to my parents house for it to just sit, 220km east to my city to get it fixed there, or 253km south to a transmission shop in Toronto that lots of Acura TL guys there vouched for due to price and quality of work. Fixing it in my city would cost well over $2000 and I wouldn't even know what shop would do it, or their reputation. I chose to get it fixed at a shop that will do it right and for a great price.
$1600 ($1300 USD) and a couple days later I have a rebuilt transmission put in and got my car back in the same condition (biggest fear is my car getting damaged when worked on).
Couple kinks though I'm hoping to get fixed. Called the shop about it already and they want me to drive (4 hours) back to drive it and check it out themselves.
- Steering wheel is slightly crooked, it drives straight with the wheel crooked (u-joint between column and rack probably just needs a minor adjustment)
- Transmission whines like crazy
- Burning smell whenever I come home and park my car in my garage
- ATF level is a bit over an inch over the upper dot on dipstick
- On the freeway applying a little gas makes the RPMs jump up to 2300 RPM and goes back down to 2100 (but the car doesn't accelerate) as if it's slipping.
If I'm really slow and gradual on the gas pedal it doesn't do it though.
They are a great shop and very honest and kind so I'm hoping everything is worked out.
Last edited by guitarplayer16; 01-17-2018 at 09:25 PM.
01-18-2018, 05:36 AM
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I find it extremely cold around here when the temps are @ 10 degrees, let alone -22F.
Hate having anyone do work on any of my cars, and finding anyone that is competent that will do the job right the first time is like finding a needle in a haystack. Another 4 hr drive back, screw around with the car again, 4 hr home................Shame.
Better take some Prozac before entering the shop.
Good luck.
Hate having anyone do work on any of my cars, and finding anyone that is competent that will do the job right the first time is like finding a needle in a haystack. Another 4 hr drive back, screw around with the car again, 4 hr home................Shame.
Better take some Prozac before entering the shop.
Good luck.
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01-18-2018, 10:16 AM
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perfect time to 6 speed swap it 
following to make sure shop fixes it right for ya!
following to make sure shop fixes it right for ya!
01-18-2018, 05:56 PM
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Sorry to see this.
01-19-2018, 08:52 AM
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Let some atf fluid out. It should not be above the top dot. If checking the level cold it should be below the lower dot and in betweem them when hot (which is when it is supposed to be checked)
The revs on freeway means your torque converter is not locking up. Same thing happens to mine when overfilled the atf. Hopefully thats all it is.
The revs on freeway means your torque converter is not locking up. Same thing happens to mine when overfilled the atf. Hopefully thats all it is.
01-19-2018, 10:54 AM
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it's okay, J misspelled it earlier as well and didn't realize it 
01-22-2018, 02:00 PM
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Thanks guys,
The car had 225k kms, so almost 140k miles.
I drove back to the shop over the weekend just for them to tell me everything is normal, including the overfilled ATF
.
As for the freeway driving symptom, he says it's normal as the "hydraulic pressure takes time". Very informative trying to explain the theory of the valves and the actuator inside that boosts the pressure when you want to drive faster.
I don't know if it's normal or not, I can't remember. It only happens when I let off the gas fully, then step on the gas again by a cm (but not gradual). If I step on the gas gradually nothing abnormal happens.
I drained ATF out so now that the hot fluid is just a mm or 2 above the upper dot. I think it shifts nicer, it could just be in my head but the freeway driving thing still happens and the transmission still whines when I'm driving slow and on the gas pedal by half a cm.
I also got an alignment done at a shop that didn't give me a print out and said all the toes are zeroed now, but the steering wheel is off center still.
Looks like I'll have to take out the column cover by the pedal and adjust the u-joint by a couple splines myself.
As for the burning smell after I pull into my garage, it's no longer present so that's a relief that it's just spilled fluid on the exhaust or something.
Hoping it lasts for at least 4 years!
The car had 225k kms, so almost 140k miles.
I drove back to the shop over the weekend just for them to tell me everything is normal, including the overfilled ATF
.As for the freeway driving symptom, he says it's normal as the "hydraulic pressure takes time". Very informative trying to explain the theory of the valves and the actuator inside that boosts the pressure when you want to drive faster.
I don't know if it's normal or not, I can't remember. It only happens when I let off the gas fully, then step on the gas again by a cm (but not gradual). If I step on the gas gradually nothing abnormal happens.
I drained ATF out so now that the hot fluid is just a mm or 2 above the upper dot. I think it shifts nicer, it could just be in my head but the freeway driving thing still happens and the transmission still whines when I'm driving slow and on the gas pedal by half a cm.
I also got an alignment done at a shop that didn't give me a print out and said all the toes are zeroed now, but the steering wheel is off center still.
Looks like I'll have to take out the column cover by the pedal and adjust the u-joint by a couple splines myself.
As for the burning smell after I pull into my garage, it's no longer present so that's a relief that it's just spilled fluid on the exhaust or something.
Hoping it lasts for at least 4 years!
01-22-2018, 09:15 PM
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FWIW I had my transmission rebuilt at 116k miles and it whined like mad before and after--literally the entire time I've owned the car, it's whined in different tones in the first three gears. The only symptom I could attribute to the impending failure was an almost imperceptible shudder on one or two occasions in the days leading up to it.
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