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[Big Fra]

A chap at work has asked me a question about his autobox, by my understanding it sounds bad.

When he is on the motorway at a steady 65-70, the car drops a gear for no reason. No acceleration or anything, just same speed.
On a 20 minute motorway drive it happened once on the way home and three times on the way into work yesterday.

The car is serviced and checked over every 6 months, fluids topped up etc.

I think the box is on the way out, but the car only has 36k on it. It is a 98S though.

Any ideas chaps? :-/

[Kevin Wood]

As always, fluid level should be the first check.

If the box behaves normally apart from this it could be an intermittent connection to a solenoid perhaps?

Also worth checking the selector switch, and for codes in the autobox ECU.

Kevin

[SP_3.2]

With the connection to the solenoid is that outside the gearbox case on do you have to remove the sump to get to the connections.

thank
Steve

[Kevin Wood]

A bit of both really. The solenoid wiring goes in via one of the multiplugs on the gearbox body but the actual connections to the individual solenoids are inside under the sump.

Kevin

[Lizzie_Zoom]

A chap at work has asked me a question about his autobox, by my understanding it sounds bad.

When he is on the motorway at a steady 65-70, the car drops a gear for no reason. No acceleration or anything, just same speed.
On a 20 minute motorway drive it happened once on the way home and three times on the way into work yesterday.

The car is serviced and checked over every 6 months, fluids topped up etc.

I think the box is on the way out, but the car only has 36k on it. It is a 98S though.

Any ideas chaps? :-/

But does the garage, or the person servicing, actually top up the box? :-/ :-/

[Richard A]

Remove the large sump, watch the fluid it will go all over the place, remove the filter (3 bolts) you can then see the solenoids.
Send a PM with your email and I will send photo's.
regards
richard a

[Big Fra]

Cheers guys, I should have explained that the car is a Chrysler Neon, not an Omega.

Its a chap in his mid 60's and he does no maintainence himself.

He asked me what I thought and whilst I can twirl a few spanners, autoboxes are witchcraft to me. I thought someone on here could shed some light for me.

The car is probably only worth about £500, and I know he wont want to throw a huge wad of money at it. It's a shame because it is a very clean car for the age and mileage.