Thread: D2 Auto dropping out of drive when the car warms up

2004 D2 diesel / auto - starts and drives well, select D and away you go. After about half an hour the D on the dash board disappears and the auto does not want to shift up. By applying pressure backwards on the selector in the cabin, the D appears and all is well, but without the constant backwards pressure the D disappears.

The posts tell me that I can loosen the XYZ switch and move it clockwise till the D appears and tighten the bolts. Could it be that the cable gets affected by the engine / gearbox heat and expands it`s length causing the D to disappear because when started from cold the D is on in the dashboard every time?

Originally Posted by PhilipA

I don't think that you have to go that far. So does the selector (t bar) then show N ? Have you had the XYZ switch apart or off the car? Have you removed the Tbar at any stage? Does the dash show N and the Tbar D?
I would try first to just adjust the nut on the cable where it joins the XYZ switch so that all of the lights agree with the selector with it in Neutral.
My brain is old and tired so I don't know which way .
Regards PhilipA

The Xyz switch was swapped over to a second hand auto about 4 years ago when the front drive shaft broke loose and cracked the auto casing, the T bar was played with, as the errant shaft tore out some of the wiring on it`s journey out. The auto has preformed well towing a 2.5 tonne van since then.

All the dash light correspond to the T bar selection - drive dash light will go out with a slight pressure to N ( but becore N is selected on the T bar).

thanks.