Auto - Holding On

[dipsomaniac]

Having a bad couple of weeks - broke down 2 weeks ago (unlucky), 10 metres from a huge layby (lucky). While waiting for RAC had the company of 6 huge rats outside of the car (lucky/unlucky?).

 

Anyway, it turned out to be the main air intake hose had popped off the throttle body. Fixed that, then a couple of days later lost all power. Garage diagnosed a faulty fluel injector -

[NikpV]

Sounds like its going into 'sport' mode

[dipsomaniac]

Thanks for the reply. Gearbox is supposed to switch to sport mode when it recognises a certain driving pattern. Do you/anyone know how it works?

[dipsomaniac]

Gearbox has never been 100% perfect since I bought the car 2 years ago. But seems a lot worse over the last couple of days. It is now not changing back up through the gears when slowing down resulting in some juddering.

 

Have it booked in with autobox specialist for Wednesday. I am not confident as they haven't been able to diagnose the problem on the last two visits.

 

Just thought I would price up a new gearbox while at Fords today. Was quoted

[Ivor_E_Tower]

Thought (1): Phone round independent auto box specialists until you get one that appears to know about the Ford Galaxy auto box; use them

Thought (2): Risk using a main delaer for the work, so long as they give you a very good warranty on the work they do

Thought (3): Trade the Galaxy in now for a newer one that appears to drive better !

[sip]

I would get that 'box seen to quickly. I drive a 2.0GLX Auto which uses an AG4 Type transmission (same as on a VW transporter & American VW Rabbits (Golf).

 

Tranmission needed to totalk rebuild at 36k miles, at a cost of

[dipsomaniac]

Thanks ivor/sip. Spoke to a specialist today who really seemed to know what he was talking about regarding the AG4 box. Have booked it in for Thursday. Its 60 miles away but they provide a car for only

[dipsomaniac]

Update for people with similar auto problems. Have had the car back from auto specialist for a couple of days now. Chose to have the gearbox reconditioned as they would have had to split the box anyway for one of the problems.

 

It turned out that I had three faults:

 

Juddering at low rpm as if in too high a gear - worn seals on torque convertor lockup mechanism.

Rough change between 3rd/4th - fault with piston/valve on 3rd/4th gear.

Gearbox holding on to gears - possibly slipping into default mode?

 

It is a lot nicer to drive now although I still get the odd rough change between 3rd/4th. I have a 18 month/18000 mile warranty so it may have to go back in.

 

Total cost

[dipsomaniac]

Update for people with similar auto problems. Have had the car back from auto specialist for a couple of days now. Chose to have the gearbox reconditioned as they would have had to split the box anyway for one of the problems.

 

It turned out that I had three faults:

 

Juddering at low rpm as if in too high a gear - worn seals on torque convertor lockup mechanism.

Rough change between 3rd/4th - fault with piston/valve on 3rd/4th gear.

Gearbox holding on to gears - possibly slipping into default mode?

 

It is a lot nicer to drive now although I still get the odd rough change between 3rd/4th. I have a 18 month/18000 mile warranty so it may have to go back in.

 

Total cost