Maat
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Hi all,
I´m certain this has already been discussed to death, however I am still in doubt as to what to do, even after reading countless threads on the subject.
I own a 1999 Td5 with an automatic gearbox. Last year, one day it just decided it won´t switch gears anymore. Sticking it into drive resulted into it just revving and not moving anywhere, so I could only drive it reverse or "I" position. After some weeks I figured I could drive off in 1st gear, then - once I gained enough speed, either by accelerating or driving downhill, so regardless of revvs - I could switch the gear lever to driv position, after which, it would go into second gear, then third and fourth, then downshift it´s way, depending on speed, behaving normally, unless I drove slow enough for it to slip from second into nothing again. Then I would switch back into "I" and so on and so on. After a while I got the hang of it and did not even think of fixing it for fear of something else breaking.
After a few months of this, after a broken propeller shaft and other more or less major issues, gearbox decided that it won´t work in drive at all anymore. When I would try my trick it would just not go into second, sometimes it would if I revved to around 4000rpm, although generally it just wouldn´t work and the M and S lights would come on flashing in the dashboard and I would have to drive it in limp mode. Upon turning the engine off and on again, the gearbox would work again normally in 1st and reverse. The lights come on whenever I revv it past 3000rpm.
In the beginning someone told me they had the same problem and changing the torque converter fixed the issue, then I thought it must be the XYZ switch and eventually I decided I would just swap the whole gearbox alongside with torque converter. I´m still leaning towards doing that, but I don´t like thinking about the possibility that it could just be something electrical and I would have two working gearboxes for nothing.
I´ve read many posts on the subject, but I feel like there are too many particulars to this problem and I am tired of playing the detective. For anyone that read this, what do you reckon. Have you dealt with the same issue? Any input I would appreciate enormously. Cheers!
- Matei
I´m certain this has already been discussed to death, however I am still in doubt as to what to do, even after reading countless threads on the subject.
I own a 1999 Td5 with an automatic gearbox. Last year, one day it just decided it won´t switch gears anymore. Sticking it into drive resulted into it just revving and not moving anywhere, so I could only drive it reverse or "I" position. After some weeks I figured I could drive off in 1st gear, then - once I gained enough speed, either by accelerating or driving downhill, so regardless of revvs - I could switch the gear lever to driv position, after which, it would go into second gear, then third and fourth, then downshift it´s way, depending on speed, behaving normally, unless I drove slow enough for it to slip from second into nothing again. Then I would switch back into "I" and so on and so on. After a while I got the hang of it and did not even think of fixing it for fear of something else breaking.
After a few months of this, after a broken propeller shaft and other more or less major issues, gearbox decided that it won´t work in drive at all anymore. When I would try my trick it would just not go into second, sometimes it would if I revved to around 4000rpm, although generally it just wouldn´t work and the M and S lights would come on flashing in the dashboard and I would have to drive it in limp mode. Upon turning the engine off and on again, the gearbox would work again normally in 1st and reverse. The lights come on whenever I revv it past 3000rpm.
In the beginning someone told me they had the same problem and changing the torque converter fixed the issue, then I thought it must be the XYZ switch and eventually I decided I would just swap the whole gearbox alongside with torque converter. I´m still leaning towards doing that, but I don´t like thinking about the possibility that it could just be something electrical and I would have two working gearboxes for nothing.
I´ve read many posts on the subject, but I feel like there are too many particulars to this problem and I am tired of playing the detective. For anyone that read this, what do you reckon. Have you dealt with the same issue? Any input I would appreciate enormously. Cheers!
- Matei
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