This has been a reoccuring problem lately. The car does one of two things:
1. It will shift just fine through the first gear but not through 2nd and 3rd. When it gets up to where it should shift, I can feel it bogg down. When this happens, the RPM's stop rising almost all together and the speed goes up very, very slowly; even if I have the pedal to the floor. Usually when this particular problem happens, if I park the car for a while and turn it off (say, 20 mins?) it runs normally again when I start it back up.
or (the other problem)
2. The check engine light comes on and it will not shift out of first gear at all until I change a fuse that for some reason continues to blow on a regular basis these days. When I change the fuse, the car works normally again for a while, and then the problem described in (1) begins happening again.
I don't know what could be causing this to keep happening! Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
1. It will shift just fine through the first gear but not through 2nd and 3rd. When it gets up to where it should shift, I can feel it bogg down. When this happens, the RPM's stop rising almost all together and the speed goes up very, very slowly; even if I have the pedal to the floor. Usually when this particular problem happens, if I park the car for a while and turn it off (say, 20 mins?) it runs normally again when I start it back up.
or (the other problem)
2. The check engine light comes on and it will not shift out of first gear at all until I change a fuse that for some reason continues to blow on a regular basis these days. When I change the fuse, the car works normally again for a while, and then the problem described in (1) begins happening again.
I don't know what could be causing this to keep happening! Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Jan 23, 2009 at 2:37 PM