Ze car

[dancerjodi]

What happened was last night I drove for almost an hour with no problem. Then all of a sudden while accelerating at a lower speed (i.e. I had gotten off of the highway) the car was jerking - like it was slipping between gears or something inappopriately. I made it home fine.

I went in to talk with Brian about it a bit and we came out to check out the car. I revved the engine in park for a bit - nothing out of the ordinary. I put the car into reverse with my foot on the break and SLAM, it rammed into gear, jerking a bit and making a loud noise. I put into drive - same thing.

After some discussion we decided to try and make it out to the dealer in Natick. There is a mechanic that I LOVE in Waltham, but he doesn't do engine and transmission work. Given that this seemed to be the tranny, we headed to the dealer. I've always had good experience with them (and besides, if I did need a new tranny or something, they have free loaner cars).

I drove and the car did its jerking/shifting thing for about 15 minutes . . . the rest of the commute it was fine (dammit)! I was thinking, maybe its just low on fluid. I just had it checked/filled a month ago though, so if that is the case, there's a leak somewhere that I'd still want to check out. Don't want to fuck with the transmission right before winter.

So it sat there overnight and I dropped my keys in the door slot. I called first thing this morning and talked to a guy who I told the whole story to. But did he tell anyone? No! The mechanics got my key in an envelope marked "transmission issues" and didn't know what to look for. They hooked it up to the computer, checked fluids, and drove it around the block. They can't find anything wrong with it. I just got a call back from another guy who I told the whole story to again (he said "OK, that gives us something to look for". I did inform him though, that I had told the whole story to someone else at around 7:30 AM.

They are going back to look at it again (are going to let it run for a while to get it hot before driving - since the problem didn't start until I had been on the road for a while last night). We shall see what happens.

Why do I have the feeling that this is going to be a long drawn out (and expensive) process to figure out what the problem is? Its reminding me a lot of when my Contour was on its way out due to Head Gasket issues . . . at least *this* car lasted me longer before the problems started. :/

Comments

Re: Sna?

[mizdarkgirl.livejournal.com]

Yep! Badly worded suggestion.