Trans kick down

05 with 173k miles, at slow speed seems like it can't make up its mind what gear it wants to be in? First time this has ever happened. I'm thinking low fluid level? TCM? or is it ready to take a dump? where should I start?

QuickTD said:

Buy a new car. You are wasting your time on that archaic lump.

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Gold. Pure gold.

clunker

I need it for mosquito control in the neighborhood

Yes, scan first, I'll see what the solenoids are doing

the car in post #4 had the nose ripped off by a red light runner, we traded it in and got the car in post #8, which now is twisted and buckled at the roof. The dealer is looking for another new one. Maybe we can get to 300 miles on the next one.

afarfalla said:

the car in post #4 had the nose ripped off by a red light runner, we traded it in and got the car in post #8, which now is twisted and buckled at the roof. The dealer is looking for another new one. Maybe we can get to 300 miles on the next one.

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I'm guessing you are now on a first name basis with the salesman, finance officer, general manager, insurance agent, local cops, and a whole lot of other people.

Maybe it is just time to stop driving and move to Florida?

oilhammer said:

Maybe it is just time to stop driving and move to Florida?

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In Florida, those people standing next to the busted car looking at their insurance policies would have blue hair.

Oh trust me, I know. I have a segment of my extended family that moved there in the early '80s, so I have had the unpleasantness of visiting quite a bit over the years. Death's Waiting Room, as we like to call it. My aunt and uncle that moved there did so because they were both in the health care field, and my uncle was a cardiac specialist nurse of sorts.... he was kept VERY busy with the oldies. Ironically, once they became oldies themselves, they took their fortunes and moved back up here to Missouri and built a giant house in the country where they still live. One of their three adult children has also moved back up here. My grandparents went there to die, but after my grandfather went, my grandmother realized she did not want to die surrounded by other people knocking on death's door, so she too moved back up here and spent her final couple years among family. I hate that state like poison. The only thing I ever enjoyed about it was the NASA stuff and taking tours there, and Disney. The beaches, the old people, the heat, the hurricanes, the deadly snakes all over along with alligators (seriously, the grandparents' subdivision had gators like we have squirrels, every week someone's pet was eaten)... no thanks.

But, if it gets the blue hairs out of the rest of the country, I'm fine with that.

NO snow

I know, no snow would suck. We don't get enough of it, sadly.

I see diesel fumes have warped your brain

And I see age and oppressive heat have yours.

I have no problem with cold, or snow. Doing four wheeled sideways drifts in parking lots with the 4mo wagon is super fun.

heat is no problem you strip, the humidity is the killer. Working in the cold, your butt crack showing, your hands are cold, wrench keeps falling in the slush, you slip on the ice, fall on your face, freezing wind blows in your nostrils, you take a deep breath your lungs freeze, your joints need massive infusions of WD-40,...makes you old fast, when your my age you'll be begging for FL. My skin is soft, smooth, and subtle, I change transmissions in shorts, iced tea in hand, all the girls whistle, sun is shinning, warm breeze, birds are chirping, think I'll buy another 05

Shop is warm in winter.

Shop is hot in summer.


I'll take the winter any day. I don't work outside.