Hi all Ford drivers,
I have had a automatic transmission problem for a few weeks now that seems to be getting worse, but I cannot work out if it the transmission that's playing up or the computer. Particularly when it warms up it kicks and changes gears up and down without control. Mostly 1st to 2nd and 2nd to 1st gear. Occasionally it is also happening between 2nd and 3rd and 3rd and 4th but less often. Sometime I switch it into the gear shift mode and I can change gears up and down and sometimes even in this "perf" mode it changes gears on its own with pretty bad kicks. More recently in the last few days, I couldn't start it as if it is stuck in Drive and it won't start. I gently jerk the gear level in Park and Neutral and eventually start it. Once it took me 20 minutes. Starter motor just starts catch on and it cuts out.
There are times that I can drive it for half an hour without any kicks in gear changes or just a couple and other times I have a sense the transmission will break apart and fall from underneath the car.
It has done 405,000km. I have changed the transmission oil and differential oil about 6 or more months ago.
I am wondering if anyone can tell me this is the transmission itself or the computer. Where could I take it for a good but reasonably priced diagnostic?
I have had a automatic transmission problem for a few weeks now that seems to be getting worse, but I cannot work out if it the transmission that's playing up or the computer. Particularly when it warms up it kicks and changes gears up and down without control. Mostly 1st to 2nd and 2nd to 1st gear. Occasionally it is also happening between 2nd and 3rd and 3rd and 4th but less often. Sometime I switch it into the gear shift mode and I can change gears up and down and sometimes even in this "perf" mode it changes gears on its own with pretty bad kicks. More recently in the last few days, I couldn't start it as if it is stuck in Drive and it won't start. I gently jerk the gear level in Park and Neutral and eventually start it. Once it took me 20 minutes. Starter motor just starts catch on and it cuts out.
There are times that I can drive it for half an hour without any kicks in gear changes or just a couple and other times I have a sense the transmission will break apart and fall from underneath the car.
It has done 405,000km. I have changed the transmission oil and differential oil about 6 or more months ago.
I am wondering if anyone can tell me this is the transmission itself or the computer. Where could I take it for a good but reasonably priced diagnostic?