I've been driving my daughter's Explorer this week while my van is in the shop. Most of the driving has been around town and the vehicle has been fine. Today I drove it on the highway (60-65 miles per hour). It drove fine on the first leg of the trip (about 26 miles). On the way home I noticed a light flashing on the dash saying "O/D off" which I assume is overdrive. I pushed the button on the end of the gear selector arm that said "O/D off/on" and could see the difference in rpm's so I left it selected for the lowest rpm's (about 2500). Then when I got closer to home and dealing with trafic lights and stop signs I started getting a hard shift when slowing up and dropping from 2nd to 1st gear. Any idea what might be causing this? I remember having the problem when we first got the vehicle about 4 years ago and our mechanic took a quick look but couldn't repeat the problem. My daughter doesn't seem to experience it but she does very little highway driving. Thanks for your help!
Aug 1, 2010 at 6:49 PM
