MrChallenger360
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- Jan 12, 2008
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Seattle,
Washington
Okay guys, picked up my 3rd dsm the last week for uber cheap (it's a 98 spyder gs-t in case your wondering). The bad news is it won't go into gear.
When talking to the previous owner he told me the following when I do not fully believe but here it is anyway.
He was driving it like he usually does with the o/d off but he was gonna get on the freeway so he switched it on and then the tranny stopped working. He told me that it needs a tranny selanoid.
So that's what I got from him. I brought the car home, checked the fluid level and it's good. So I started it up and gave it a try. Well it didn't go into gear. I did notice that when I put it into a drive gear I heard a fast clicking noise like something it trying to engage but not working. It does that in all the drive gears with o/d on and off.
I was reading through my service manual about a/t and it had a list of codes that the car could throw so I decided to hook up a obd2 reader to check it out despite the fact I had no cel. Unfortunately no codes came up so I'm back at square one.
I've been doing some research in the a/t forum but I can't really find an answer. The only thing I got from it is limp mode or whatever. I don't know what that is or if that's my problem so if you can explain that 2 that would be cool.
Thanks guys.
When talking to the previous owner he told me the following when I do not fully believe but here it is anyway.
He was driving it like he usually does with the o/d off but he was gonna get on the freeway so he switched it on and then the tranny stopped working. He told me that it needs a tranny selanoid.
So that's what I got from him. I brought the car home, checked the fluid level and it's good. So I started it up and gave it a try. Well it didn't go into gear. I did notice that when I put it into a drive gear I heard a fast clicking noise like something it trying to engage but not working. It does that in all the drive gears with o/d on and off.
I was reading through my service manual about a/t and it had a list of codes that the car could throw so I decided to hook up a obd2 reader to check it out despite the fact I had no cel. Unfortunately no codes came up so I'm back at square one.
I've been doing some research in the a/t forum but I can't really find an answer. The only thing I got from it is limp mode or whatever. I don't know what that is or if that's my problem so if you can explain that 2 that would be cool.
Thanks guys.