Auto Knackered?

**Jazzman** · 20th January 2016, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by Epic_Dragon

mine does this too! much much worse if aircon is on! i thought it was a fly by wire delay response. have been trying to figure it out in order to make it go away as sometimes it is a tad dangerous when you need to move and car thinks about it then shoots off!

Unplug your MAF and drive around for a a day or two. See if it still happens.

You may also experience a little difficultly starting if your MAF is faulty.

**Ralph1Malph** · 20th January 2016, 12:22 PM

Wow! This is more common than I expected.
I will get to the bottom of this!

Ralph

**Ralph1Malph** · 23rd January 2016, 06:41 PM

Well,
I checked the trans fluid today, cold. Plenty in the box. Seemed quite good. Not dirty or smelly.
I then circulated the oil by selecting the gears and checked again.
Mmmm.... fluid was noticeably darker and I detected a feint burned smell, but nothing I would normally worry about. I have seen much worse.

Fluid is prob 6-7k old, mainly town and highway.

What to do next?

Ralph

**Jazzman** · 25th January 2016, 09:29 PM

Unplug your MAF and go for a drive.

schuy1 · 26th January 2016, 12:33 PM

^^^^ what he says. By doing that the system defaults to a basic factory setting which will rule out or in the MAF as a prob.
Cheers Scott

**Disco Muppet** · 27th January 2016, 10:35 AM

Check your throttle position sensor voltages!

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**Pippin** · 27th January 2016, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by Ralph1Malph

Well,
I checked the trans fluid today, cold. Plenty in the box. Seemed quite good. Not dirty or smelly.
I then circulated the oil by selecting the gears and checked again.
Mmmm.... fluid was noticeably darker and I detected a feint burned smell, but nothing I would normally worry about. I have seen much worse.

Fluid is prob 6-7k old, mainly town and highway.

What to do next?

Ralph

It may be a stupid question but are you following the correct fill and check procedure as this can only be done with the engine running after you have run through all the gears?

Nick

**Ralph1Malph** · 27th January 2016, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Jazzman

Unplug your MAF and go for a drive.

Originally Posted by schuy1

^^^^ what he says. By doing that the system defaults to a basic factory setting which will rule out or in the MAF as a prob.
Cheers Scott

I will once I get my nanocom repaired. Also I am currently not in Bris so things are going slow diagnosis wise.
I have previously replaced the MAF, maybe 4 yrs ago, with a genuine so I hope that's not it! Similarly, one of my fears is that the fault lays in a wiring loom somewhere.

Cheers
Ralph

**Ralph1Malph** · 27th January 2016, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

Check your throttle position sensor voltages!

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Will do once nanocom is fixed!

Cheers
Ralph

**Ralph1Malph** · 30th March 2016, 06:57 PM

Update:
Hopefully nanocom will arrive back from blackbox in the next few days.
I was driving the Mt Mee scenic route over Easter and sure enough, by the top of the drive there was the unmistakable smell of singed trans fluid.

Funny thing tho, apart from revving a little higher as it holds back the changes (and the aforementioned lag), the shifts are pretty smooth.

I'll dig a little deeper when nano arrives home, but at this stage, I don't have the coin for a box rebuild or replacement, so maybe a straight swap from a donor car - searching for friends with the means....

Cheers
Ralph

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