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Hooliseds

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This car is giving me so much grief atm. 2008 ve Calais. Replaced couple o2 sensors after it kept coding out and it finally cured it. Have driven 350ks with no issue until tonight when a new issue has surfaced. Went from Nunawading to Carlton tonight (25min drive) Didn't skip a beat. Got to my destination and turned car off for about 20mins.
Upon starting.. Stability control is off.. Contact Dealer.. Ffs.. Car was still idling fine, turned esp on and off and proceeded to drive away.
Here's the problem
The gearbox is shifting all out of whack with the up shifts and tacho bouncing around quite abit but was still very drivable on the freeway.
However when slowing at lights etc at like 30ks and under its slamming down gears like slam to 3rd slam to 2nd and slam into 1st...wtf.. Drive like a granny just incase to mates place 35mins from Carlton and turn it off and chat to him for 30mins. Go to take him for a drive to show him and it was perfectly fine up shift and downshifting.. I'm guessing something electrical is bugging out that has a affect how the auto works would I be right?
 

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This car is giving me so much grief atm. 2008 ve Calais. Replaced couple o2 sensors after it kept coding out and it finally cured it. Have driven 350ks with no issue until tonight when a new issue has surfaced. Went from Nunawading to Carlton tonight (25min drive) Didn't skip a beat. Got to my destination and turned car off for about 20mins.
Upon starting.. Stability control is off.. Contact Dealer.. Ffs.. Car was still idling fine, turned esp on and off and proceeded to drive away.
Here's the problem
The gearbox is shifting all out of whack with the up shifts and tacho bouncing around quite abit but was still very drivable on the freeway.
However when slowing at lights etc at like 30ks and under its slamming down gears like slam to 3rd slam to 2nd and slam into 1st...wtf.. Drive like a granny just incase to mates place 35mins from Carlton and turn it off and chat to him for 30mins. Go to take him for a drive to show him and it was perfectly fine up shift and downshifting.. I'm guessing something electrical is bugging out that has a affect how the auto works would I be right?
VEs are very battery voltage sensitive.

Check battery and earth leads first. check alternator charging ok
 

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Yeh Google says the same. Will head down to the mechanic and get him to scan it yet again. Lucky he's auto elec..
 

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Scanned the car and code P1825. ie Looks to be the internal mode switch inside the gearbox. Fault hasn't come back yet so it's a waiting game to see if it happens again before I get the box serviced
 

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Buy three things so you don’t get butt hurt every time a code appears or something seems off.

1. Topdon Bluetooth battery tester. When the battery in the VE is playing silly buggers, so will the cars network and there will be more codes than a CIA meeting in a park.

2. A Bluetooth OBD2 reader.

3. An app for your phone to read from the Bluetooth tooth OBD2 reader.
iOS: Dash Command app
Android: Torque app
 
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