| Endro |
Jan 16, 2012 10:10 AM |
Automatic won't shift out of first in cold weather
Hey guys, I've tried searching everywhere on this topic and while finding similar problems, I haven't read anything exactly like what my car is doing. If you know of a link to another thread where some one gave a solution to this problem please let me know, otherwise just try to get me going in the right direction so I don't end up wasting more money.
About a week ago, I got up for work and it was about 5 degrees outside. My car started just fine, and after a few seconds I started taking off down the road. When I got my speed up a bit the car failed to shift into second gear. Even when I pushed the shifter into the manual gear selector I could not get the car to shift out of first. I pulled into a parking lot and had my girlfriend drive me to work. When it was warmer in the day, the transmission worked flawlessly and I was able to drive it home. The same exact thing happened the next day, again in freezing weather. I had to let it run for about 45 minutes before it had warmed up, but after it had, the transmission seemed to work perfect again.
I took my car to a transmission shop and they told me it the first step they would have to take would be to change my camshaft sensors. This cost me $300 and for the next week of cold mornings I had no problems at all and believed they had fixed the problem. Today I woke up in -2 degreee Connecticut weather and had the same exact problem. Before I take it back to the transmission shop, has anyone gone through a similar situation and maybe have an idea what is going on? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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