Fu Manchu
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We've had a miss in the Series 1 V6 VE Calais V (with a 5 speed auto) for a while.
Started as an intermittent miss on starting cold.
Then it stopped that and became an intermittent miss once warmed up.
Two technicians could not pick it.
The car was never warmed up enough though.
It only happened in the 1500-2000 rev range going on throttle or coming off.
It was a hard miss.
No codes were being logged.
Freeway cruising was most noticeable.
From what I've learnt of torque converter issues, they normally present a little more like driving over a cattle grid, where as ours was 2 or 3 hard misses but more as a hard single shudder one after the other.
The miss was harder than a misfire from say a faulty coil.
We have had a few issues to resolve with this car.
This bug didn't seem high on the list.
Then reversing, it went out of gear and revved out.
Switched car off and on again, all good, gears engaged and off we went.
Things settled a bit. We used the car as little as possible.
Wife called me.
She had broken down all together.
Car gave out in an intersection.
It was revving with little to no forward movement.
Someone pushed the car off the road for her.
When I got there, it was being loaded onto the tilt tray.
Took a while for a long trusted mechanic to look at it.
His verdict after consulting a transmission expert he bumps ideas off, "The gear box is now cactus."
The Torque converter had given out, damaged the pump, which in turn may have done more damage further down the line.
So rather than bodging it up, he felt it was more professional to put a freshly rebuilt gear box in.
The failing clutch was grabbing in spurts rather than creating a vibrating shudder like going over a cattle grid.
Interestingly, for most of the time we've owned the car, when it's in Sports Mode, it all most compression skids when changing down in the lower gears.
Is that common with them?
This might help someone having a similar issue and help get it looked at earlier for them.
Started as an intermittent miss on starting cold.
Then it stopped that and became an intermittent miss once warmed up.
Two technicians could not pick it.
The car was never warmed up enough though.
It only happened in the 1500-2000 rev range going on throttle or coming off.
It was a hard miss.
No codes were being logged.
Freeway cruising was most noticeable.
From what I've learnt of torque converter issues, they normally present a little more like driving over a cattle grid, where as ours was 2 or 3 hard misses but more as a hard single shudder one after the other.
The miss was harder than a misfire from say a faulty coil.
We have had a few issues to resolve with this car.
This bug didn't seem high on the list.
Then reversing, it went out of gear and revved out.
Switched car off and on again, all good, gears engaged and off we went.
Things settled a bit. We used the car as little as possible.
Wife called me.
She had broken down all together.
Car gave out in an intersection.
It was revving with little to no forward movement.
Someone pushed the car off the road for her.
When I got there, it was being loaded onto the tilt tray.
Took a while for a long trusted mechanic to look at it.
His verdict after consulting a transmission expert he bumps ideas off, "The gear box is now cactus."
The Torque converter had given out, damaged the pump, which in turn may have done more damage further down the line.
So rather than bodging it up, he felt it was more professional to put a freshly rebuilt gear box in.
The failing clutch was grabbing in spurts rather than creating a vibrating shudder like going over a cattle grid.
Interestingly, for most of the time we've owned the car, when it's in Sports Mode, it all most compression skids when changing down in the lower gears.
Is that common with them?
This might help someone having a similar issue and help get it looked at earlier for them.
