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Transmission Dropping Gears?

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 10:41 pm
by hitchhykova
If it's not one thing it's another with this damn car.

Today, when I left to head down to Chicago from Wisconsin, when I took off, it shifted hard for no reason, and then had no 4th gear.

Whenever I would step on the gas, the RPMs would jump, then it would grab, staying in 3rd. I've had transmission issues like this before with a totally different brand of car, and the same trick worked with this car...

I turn it off, then start it back up, it works perfectly, all gears, normal shifting.

I've flushed the fluid twice now, the first time I added seafoam, drove for a few days then flushed it again.

What would cause it to do that?

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 10:50 pm
by evolutionmovement
My GL had similar issues when the modulator valve went, but I imagine the computer does that job on the Legacy transmission.

Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 11:20 pm
by gijonas
x2.Research the valve thing if they have one then that is probably it.