torque converter locking up/slipping/dod issues??
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torque converter locking up/slipping/dod issues?? saturday i hop in my car, drive to the highway, and instanlly noticed something was wrong, from 50-80 mph it was like tryin to find which gear to go into, and it seems to do it when cold too, it slipped real bad this morning, but when it warms up it goes away
i have also noticed its shuttering at every speed, but when i stopped at the dearlship it coold down for 30mins and it drove home fine, no engine lights nothing of that, so is it the converter or is it also the dod goin batty
and iam fucked no warranty
dealership say i just cant buy a gm warranty, car has to be under gm warranty to buy the extended, how fucked am i now, not a good week
i have also noticed its shuttering at every speed, but when i stopped at the dearlship it coold down for 30mins and it drove home fine, no engine lights nothing of that, so is it the converter or is it also the dod goin batty
and iam fucked no warranty
dealership say i just cant buy a gm warranty, car has to be under gm warranty to buy the extended, how fucked am i now, not a good week
Mine does the same thing. It started doing this at about 48K miles and I now have 64K miles. I have nursed it for almost a year like this. It is getting re-built in about 3 weeks. It will all cost me about 2500 - 3000 dollars after all said and done. That is with all upgraded hi-performance parts too. Hate to say it but it's time for a re-build. Sad but true...
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i sure hope its not the tranny, i dont beat on the car, i dont drag race, normal driving and if it turns out to be the tranny iam fucked there is no way i can afford 3,000, no way
but when i went to the dealer tonight the finance person told me i can not buy gm warranty when the car is out of factory double whammy!!!
but when i went to the dealer tonight the finance person told me i can not buy gm warranty when the car is out of factory double whammy!!!
could be a torque converter. We had an Impala SS a month or two ago that had a bad converter and pumped metal shavings thru the whole trans. It got a new converter and a complete rebuild.
What dealership did you go to? I see you are in Chicago. What year is your car and how many miles. Post your the last 8 of your VIN and a I can look up the history.
What dealership did you go to? I see you are in Chicago. What year is your car and how many miles. Post your the last 8 of your VIN and a I can look up the history.
For what it's worth Bdyman I never beat on mine either. I have only used tap-shift about 3 to 4 times and raced twice. These transmissions are not supposed to be mated with a V-8, plain and simple. Our cars have too much torque right off the bat that's why ours are breaking faster than other cars with the same trans. I have a modded GTP with a stock transmission and it is still fine with 139k miles on it. It only has a shift kit on it. I will say that compared with the GTP the GXP has much more torque off the line. The GTP's torque kicks in like crazy when the boost is up.
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could be a torque converter. We had an Impala SS a month or two ago that had a bad converter and pumped metal shavings thru the whole trans. It got a new converter and a complete rebuild.
What dealership did you go to? I see you are in Chicago. What year is your car and how many miles. Post your the last 8 of your VIN and a I can look up the history.
What dealership did you go to? I see you are in Chicago. What year is your car and how many miles. Post your the last 8 of your VIN and a I can look up the history.
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I have a rebuilt (performance build) from Century transmissions with a loosened stock converter and mine is doing that searching crap too. My built 4k tranny is only 11 months old, but I am starting to worry about it. It searches back and forth a ton. I thought it might be just the trans tune, but from reading this, I could have a bigger "uh-oh". What do you all think?
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well well i never thought in a million yrs my car would have tranny issues, and put one more gxp on this borad for a rebuilt tranny, found out today, and hopefully i get my other problems fixed too
now this is the coolest thing, i have no warranty well thanks god the dealership we fix there cars for the manager is super dee duper cool, and is covering all repairs under warranty, when he told me this i wanted ti kiss him lol
so next week i get my car back, iam to upside down in the loan to get rid of it, and i have a toyota camary for a rental, it just really sucks i love the car but c`mon how many problems can one car have this is just redicoulus
and the manager has the caddy with the northstar and the same tranny and never one issue, how is this possible, but anyway iam glad its gettin fixed for free
any chicago land people go to castle pontiac, and see carl
now this is the coolest thing, i have no warranty well thanks god the dealership we fix there cars for the manager is super dee duper cool, and is covering all repairs under warranty, when he told me this i wanted ti kiss him lol
so next week i get my car back, iam to upside down in the loan to get rid of it, and i have a toyota camary for a rental, it just really sucks i love the car but c`mon how many problems can one car have this is just redicoulus
and the manager has the caddy with the northstar and the same tranny and never one issue, how is this possible, but anyway iam glad its gettin fixed for free
any chicago land people go to castle pontiac, and see carl
Congrats on them good-willing the trans work! They usually wont do that unless you have been a loyal customer to them.
If you are gonna plug Castle Pontiac, then I'm throwing out one too: have your car serviced by me @ Bredemann Chevrolet in Park Ridge. We also do Pontiac's, Cadillac's, and anything else GM.
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good one
i think he did it becasue we have been working with them for so long, or becasue he knows iam a single dad or maybe becasue iam poor lol
either way iam just glad its getting fixed, and i still might use you for my other car,
i think he did it becasue we have been working with them for so long, or becasue he knows iam a single dad or maybe becasue iam poor lol
either way iam just glad its getting fixed, and i still might use you for my other car,
Watch out for the labor rates! They are a lot higher at cadillac. The Cadillac dealer I worked at was $154/hr when I left there. The chevy dealer I'm at now is $106.
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god damn!! i wish the labor rates would go up for us, hey matt if the dealer wont do the other problems iam having would you be interested in doin them, like the steering shaft, and going over bumps slowly or at average speed clunk clunk
if they dont you wanna do it
if they dont you wanna do it
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why?? no time no room, i would pay you what you want i can get the parts cheap,
on a side note
on my alero its a 03 with the 2.2 ecotec, a few yrs ago i installed a header, i did do a high flow cat why i dunno i was stupid, with a 02 sim after the cat, well had nothing but problems, so finally i got rid of the 02 sim, returned to a factory cat, replaced both 02 sensors, cleared the codes, and started to use mid grade gas
once in a while the light would come on, i would change the down stream sensor AGAIN, clear the code and iam all good, so the car sat for 3 yrs, and when i finished the car a few months ago, i ran the car until it died out no gas, filled it up with fresh gas, and the light hasnt been on since, and its running awesome, but..............after this week when he had that 60 degree day, took her down to the local bp, put 10bucks of the mid grade gas, going home boom light comes on i plug my scan tool in, low and behold downstream 02 sensor,
i changed it, cleared the code, but why, what is causing this, the header does not leak at all, the othe rmods i have are a 62mm tb, and a warm air intake, thats it, so why what is wrong with my olds
on a side note
on my alero its a 03 with the 2.2 ecotec, a few yrs ago i installed a header, i did do a high flow cat why i dunno i was stupid, with a 02 sim after the cat, well had nothing but problems, so finally i got rid of the 02 sim, returned to a factory cat, replaced both 02 sensors, cleared the codes, and started to use mid grade gas
once in a while the light would come on, i would change the down stream sensor AGAIN, clear the code and iam all good, so the car sat for 3 yrs, and when i finished the car a few months ago, i ran the car until it died out no gas, filled it up with fresh gas, and the light hasnt been on since, and its running awesome, but..............after this week when he had that 60 degree day, took her down to the local bp, put 10bucks of the mid grade gas, going home boom light comes on i plug my scan tool in, low and behold downstream 02 sensor,
i changed it, cleared the code, but why, what is causing this, the header does not leak at all, the othe rmods i have are a 62mm tb, and a warm air intake, thats it, so why what is wrong with my olds