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Autobox advice
« on: 08 September 2006, 14:35:00 »
My sister has just been to look at a car and It drives in first gear and then instead of changing to second it drops to neutral/no gear. Reverse works OK.

Can anyone suggest what could be wrong with this I was thinking maybe the selector switch and being in need of a good service.

If the car is fixable I maybe tempted to tell my sister to go for it.

Any advice is much appreciated  :)
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Re: Autobox advice
« Reply #1 on: 08 September 2006, 14:55:14 »
Any Ideas anyone as to whether my idea is somewhere near correct. :question
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Re: Autobox advice
« Reply #2 on: 08 September 2006, 15:12:07 »
Best case oil.

Worst case a box off Ronnie
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Re: Autobox advice
« Reply #3 on: 10 September 2006, 16:06:08 »
It will usually be as others have said...

Dodgy selector switch/solenoid.
Lack of oil/very old oil
Dead gearbox.

None are terminal.
At worst a replacement gearbox, which is a 3-4 hour job from start to finish.

I take it this is an Omega?

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Re: Autobox advice
« Reply #4 on: 11 September 2006, 09:39:00 »
I assumed Omega as well.

If it is French do not walk away - run away as fast as you can!
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Re: Autobox advice
« Reply #5 on: 11 September 2006, 11:25:49 »
Nah its an elite her bloke has a tourer at the moment but was looking at the elite. Not sure if they went for it or not though.
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Re: Autobox advice
« Reply #6 on: 11 September 2006, 15:43:33 »
is this intermittent and/or does it engage 2nd eventually (after spinning in 'neutral' for a bit)?
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Re: Autobox advice
« Reply #7 on: 11 September 2006, 16:51:03 »
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is this intermittent and/or does it engage 2nd eventually (after spinning in 'neutral' for a bit)?

As far as I have been told it doesn't change up at all :)
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Re: Autobox advice
« Reply #8 on: 11 September 2006, 19:21:36 »
i had an occasional failure to change from 2nd-3rd which felt like the car was hanging in neutral - it would eventually go into 3rd. it was a faulty servo seal inside the box (i think) and was replaced under warranty after all sorts of ecus and the like had been changed. diagnostics werent a great help either - only got an icon up twice and the reader just found 'unknown trouble code'.
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