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Larry
Larry
7 months ago, the power steering pump and pressure line gave out at 42K miles. Today 12-23-09, his Impala sits in his driveway with a blown tranny. Car only has 56,667 K miles on the clock. This is unheard of! I guess now we all know why GM shares are below 60 cents!
I feel really bad for him because he took real good care of his car, I did all the maintaince work on it for the passed 3 years. Furthermore, he has always been patriotic with that "buy american, support american economy" nonsense. Too bad most people dont realize that Domestic vehicles are put together with outsourced garbage parts that are made in a 3rd world sweat shop with very poor quality control.
It saddens me that America can make an airplane that is almost garanteed to be in service for 30 years (boeing 737) but cannot make a reliable automobile. My 96' nissan 240sx has 155K miles on the clock with all original parts (starter, alternator, TRANNY, POWER STEERING PUMP, ect) and it never skips a beat. On top of all this, GM had to get bailed out from us tax payers?!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The government should have let them fail! Period!! It seems that their sole focus and quality enginerring is on all the behemouth suv's, trucks and cargo vans?? and even those are crappy with miss-aligned fenders and squeeking bushings after 2 years on the road.
My friend has desided to head to the Nissan dealer and pick up a Quest. He says "I should have done this back in 06' when I purchased this Impala"
Sorry for the long post, Im just venting here. Good luck to you all and I hope ya'll go after GM with a class-action law suit for selling garbage cars and trucks!
The problem seems to be when speeding up onto a major highway from the onramp when I reach about 80km/hr on my way to 110km/hr it seems to have lost its power...it will eventually get up to speed but it really seems to struggle...also on a couple of occasions when I go to pass someone and I am already doing 110km/hr it drops down a gear and hence seems to struggle again...
The engine is the 3.8L. I cleaned the K&N air filter to make sure it wasn't starving for air but didn't seem to make any difference.
Any ideas on what might be happening? Like I said, I love the car and hope to keep it for another 3 years...
Any help/ideas would be GREATLY appreciated....
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I have a 2004 Chevy Impala LS with 109,800 miles. I bought the car in 2005 with 32000 miles. I have never had any problems with the vehicle until about 6 months ago. I took the vehicle in for an oil change and they suggested I have the automatic transmission flushed with this machine because the fluid was dirty. Ever since the flush the transmission has started slipping. When I first get in the vehicle it runs great for about 15 or 20 minutes. As it gets hotter the the transmission will jump in and out of gear while at high speed. If I come to a stop the transmission seems to clunk as is trys to downshift. The other day I was sitting at a light and the car lurched and died as though I popped the clutch without giving the vehicle any gas. Another thing if I drive the car 10 or 15 minutes, shut it down, and then try and restart it it will jump and die. When I finally get it running the transmission will jump in and out gear as though the computer doesn't know what gear to put it in. Any ideas from anyone would be greatly appreciated
You might scan the car's computer for transmission trouble codes and go from there. It's impossible to diagnose a modern electronic transmission from this distance.
Any ideas what might be causing this problem?
I appreciate any help/suggestions!
Thanks,
Scott
If that doesn't do it, you probably have some kind of internal damage or internal malfunction, like a servo piston, or servo seal, or damaged clutch drum.
On the way to her place the car was lurching like crazy on the freeway. It has never done this in 4 years of ownership. The next day the check engine light came on and stayed on. Not being able to bring it back to the dealer she brought it into a local shop and they diagnosed it as the output speed sensor being bad. $191 later the car seems to be fine now.
Now, how did this suddenly go wrong right after the work for the recall? Seems unrelated but the sensor is located near the steering components so I've heard. The Dealer screwed the car up. That's the bad news.
The good news is I have an answer for your lurching issues-the output speed sensor. Hope this helps!
1) Would it be reasonable to drive the car without overdrive. I'm ok with the fact my gas consumption will go up and I have a engine in this car with only 40K miles on it.
2) Do you think that signalling from the car is just not telling the transmission to go into overdrive. Or does it sound like something is wrong with the transmission itself
It would greatly appreciate your feedback
2)
It's very hard to diagnose a modern transmission remotely. There has to be further testing. Hopefully, some codes will give you a hint as to where to go next with this.