housegsx
15+ Year Contributor
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- May 28, 2004
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Greensburg,
Pennsylvania
I have a 96 Tsi awd automatic. It is completely stock. The transmission has been acting strange recently and I'm not even sure how to explain it.
Sometimes it seems like it's slow to get back into 1st when accelerating just after a stop. Lately, it also seems like the transmission likes to mess with me the air conditioning is on. It would feel like it's slipping or kicking in and out gear real fast or something like that. Now on Friday it seems like it is acting strange even when the A/C is off. I was cruising slow in the city and also going down the highway and it would feel like it was kick in and out again and it made the car feel like it had a miss.
Also, every once in a while it seems like it wants to hold 2nd or 3rd gear a little long and won't upshift until I pick up more speed.
Any ideas or what's going on here? i've searched around some but can't get a definitive answer on what problems a bad end clutch or torque converter could cause. I really don't know what it could be, I'm not to familiar with automatics.
Also, I put a new trans filter and all new ATF4 Castrol sythetic fluid in it about a year ago, so that shouldn't be a problem.
Sometimes it seems like it's slow to get back into 1st when accelerating just after a stop. Lately, it also seems like the transmission likes to mess with me the air conditioning is on. It would feel like it's slipping or kicking in and out gear real fast or something like that. Now on Friday it seems like it is acting strange even when the A/C is off. I was cruising slow in the city and also going down the highway and it would feel like it was kick in and out again and it made the car feel like it had a miss.
Also, every once in a while it seems like it wants to hold 2nd or 3rd gear a little long and won't upshift until I pick up more speed.
Any ideas or what's going on here? i've searched around some but can't get a definitive answer on what problems a bad end clutch or torque converter could cause. I really don't know what it could be, I'm not to familiar with automatics.
Also, I put a new trans filter and all new ATF4 Castrol sythetic fluid in it about a year ago, so that shouldn't be a problem.