The issue is intermittent, but the tranny will get stuck in D. Even with the gearshift pushed over to the DS/M position or attempting to shift with the gearshift or paddles, the tranny stays in D. I brought it in last week and they claimed that when the tranny fluid was changed at 30K, it was overfilled and was boiling. It seemed like it was fixed, but it's started to happen again, although not as much as before.

He said to bring it back in, he thinks there may be something more serious - possibly needing a new transmission.

3 questions:
Has anyone dealt with this problem before?

Should I remove the grounding wires before bringing it in to avoid any warranty issues?

If they do have to put in a new tranny (hopefully not), would they be able to replace it with a 7spd, or do they still manufacture the 5spd to put in there.

- Ajay

 

Should have gotten a 6mt... the problem would have been solved

 

But to answer one of your questions... No they wouldn't give you a 7 speed if they had to replace your transmission. You should also go ahead and remove your grounding kit, because you never know what the stealership will lie to you about.

 

From what I can remember a few members on here have experienced this and if I remember correctly I think it was down to a blown fuse or something simple like that.

A similar thing happened to me, but only once last year. My car caught some air just before shifting up to 3rd gear and the transmission went back to D and didn't want to change to DS or manual. I arrived at work, switched the car of then back on and everything was back to normal.

I'm pretty sure other members have experienced something similar, do a search

P.S. I too have the grounding kit, haven't had any problems since installing them

 

AJ, have them check the switch that controls the transition from D to DS and back. There have been several reports of this going out and being replaced under warranty.

The grounding kit should have nothing to do with it, if it has to void anything it will likely be the charging system since Infiniti specifically mentions not grounding anything through the negative battery cable because of that box they placed there --- forgot what it's called but it's there to monitor charging states, etc...

But to be safe, just take the grounding kit off.

 

You were rally racing your car before work...Car caught some air? haha

I have BB grounding kit and everythings been fine since.

 

no actually, it's the way they have sections of the motorway linked together here, between each slab of tarmac there's like a 1 inch difference, so you either catch some air if you're going fast enough or you slam down onto the ground if you're going too slow lol

 

https://g35driver.com/forums/v36-eng...t-into-ds.html


its a position switch. your transmission is fine.

 

Take off the grounding kit anyway.... hopefully its just the switch, but i would be pissed if the tech told me they overfilled it and the transmission fluid was boiling! that alone could have caused premature wear. hopefully you get a free transmission out of it!

 

Replace the trans? LOL is that what they were taught at mech. school?

Anyhow, the problem is with the shifter unit which I believe is under the gear stick.

 

great thanks guys, i'll tell him to check the shifter switch. The tranny seems fine, I originally though it was some sort of electrical glitch or something but they couldn't find anything.

Should I still take off the grounding kit to have them look at the shifter switch? I didn't when I brought it in last week... Just kind of a pain

 

curious. does everyone take off all their mods when going to get a car checked?

 

just my intake ^ (since they consider the air filters to be not up to par with OEM filtration standards)
they have no issues with my exhaust though.

 

Haha yea. I just got my car smog checked and apparently a Pop charger is legal on 2004+ but not 2003?

I just was wondering about warranty issues. Although I'm sure thats something I should have looked up well before I actually got the mod bug, huh?

 

part #34950M shift lock solenoid...

Better check this before, mine was dirty.