Another Auto -box Failure!

[Steve S.]

Hi one and all,

Not posted for a long time but keep "hovering"...always interesting stuff going on!In many respects the Galaxy has been behaving itself remarkably well with nothing major going wrong....well until yesterday when myself, plus SWMBO and her sister set off for a pub lunch in said vehicle only to be thwarted after a mere 200 yards of travel!Having stopped for a zebra crossing, on attempting to pull away no forward motion was forthcoming, all revs and smells.We managed to roll out of the way and, sure enough, no forward drive in D 3,2,or 1. Reverse was fine,but although tempted by the lure of pie and pint the practicallity of driving 3 miles in reverse proved too difficult to contemplate!Interestingly reverse motion was available in 1 also..I don't remember this always being the case!Anyway to cut a long story short, the AA was summonsed,and we were duly towed home.The AA chap had a good look around but could't find anything out of the ordinary (leaks,loose wires/cables etc)so the Galaxy resides on the drive until the local Auto specialist can get to it .(He's very busy at the moment)otherwise we would have got a tow straight there.)

Now would anyone like to suggest what the fault/s are? There was no hint prior to this that anything was failing with the box...no noises, judders, smells, leaks,slippage,etc. It just well stopped!The box was totally reconned in 2007 and has only done 19K miles since!

I notice "sagafantasia" has had similar problems...commiserations.Try contacting staautogearbox.co.uk they do a free online diagnostic service which might help you.They suggested it might be selector cable connections in my case..we'll have to wait and see!I just hope it's something simple(and cheap)but it never is ,is it?

Best regards,

Steve S.