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View Poll Results: At what mileage did you replace/repair your transmission?
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Old Apr 25, 2009 | 11:57 AM
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Stealth,

Wow, did you have bad shifting at that high of a temp? 240 is very high for trans. temps.

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Old Apr 26, 2009 | 08:09 AM
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mybe u guys can tell me whats wrong..coming home the other night and im doin about 75-80ish and i go to floor it and my car goes absolutly nowhere..i mean nowhere. i took my foot off and did it again and same result happened..tach would just hover around 4000rpm and not move..does anyone know what this might be engine or tanny??
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Old Apr 26, 2009 | 08:20 AM
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sounds maybe like transmission
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Old Apr 26, 2009 | 08:36 AM
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My old GT did that and it turned out to be a bad cat. converter.

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Old Apr 26, 2009 | 11:10 AM
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43K a mix of getting on it and driving civil. Also doing manual down shifts. I want to change the fluid/filter at 50K.
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Old Apr 26, 2009 | 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Count of Monte Carlo
43K a mix of getting on it and driving civil. Also doing manual down shifts. I want to change the fluid/filter at 50K.
yup, that's when I had mine done... got mine changed at 50/55k...
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Old Apr 26, 2009 | 11:58 AM
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Damn I did mine @ 30K.
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Old Apr 26, 2009 | 03:21 PM
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Has anyone with a cooler installed still have their trans fail?
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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 11:07 AM
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I thought ATF needed to be changed every 30K. Am I wrong?
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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 01:04 PM
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Well the fluid in our cars is a syntetic, It depends on what the owners manual says.
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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 01:55 PM
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I need to look at that. lol
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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 02:08 PM
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If you run the car hard then it's every 50K

If you drive normal (old lady like) then 100K

So if you are anything like the rest of us 50K is a good bet, or sooner.
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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 02:42 PM
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Wow. That's good. I definitely figured it would be sooner. I had to do it every 30K miles on my Dodge Stratus R/T coupe (3.0L V6 / 4-spd auto).
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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 04:54 PM
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mines is about at 50 k and when i jump from first to second the car jumps abit like givin it a push dont knw if thats good or bad and also it tends to high rev into second not wanting to go into third
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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 07:17 PM
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Mine feels like you let off the gas during shifts, kinda annoying to watch the nose drop during shifts, but its always done that, hasn't gotten any worse. I don't think its handling the gears right.
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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 08:33 PM
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mine took a **** at 37k, a week later it started to shutter again, and now iam waiting on gm to aprove the servcie bulletin for my car
there is a bulleitin for 05 gxp`s the repair is new tourqe converter, and new tranny
i cant wait to trade this car in i have had more problems then ever with this car, and iam not buying a gm product again
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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 09:19 PM
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39,000
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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by bdyman
mine took a **** at 37k, a week later it started to shutter again, and now iam waiting on gm to aprove the servcie bulletin for my car
there is a bulleitin for 05 gxp`s the repair is new tourqe converter, and new tranny
i cant wait to trade this car in i have had more problems then ever with this car, and iam not buying a gm product again

well - why not??? you could probably get a Pontiac for CHEAP right now

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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by impala06ss
Mine feels like you let off the gas during shifts, kinda annoying to watch the nose drop during shifts, but its always done that, hasn't gotten any worse. I don't think its handling the gears right.
Do you have a tune? Torque management cuts throttle back between shifts.
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Old Apr 28, 2009 | 07:09 AM
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Stock, no tune.
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