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Hard shift into reverse & feels stuck in 3rd? S40-V40 2001

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posted by  alschnertz on  Sat May 9 18:11 CST 2015
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Not feeling good about this.
'01 S40, 185,000 miles and has been a good car.

Bought at 145,000.
Here's the transmission maintenance that I've performed.
Drain / fill transmission with Dex III at 147,000, 150,000, 156,000, 160,000, and 170,000.
Then flush (not power flush) with and change to Mobil 3309 at 173,000.

The reason I switched to 3309 was on recommendations that said the '01 owner's manual was wrong and that it was supposed to list a fluid spec like 3309. Dex III was not supposed to have ever been recommended according to "the experts".

So today the car started to have a "very" hard shift into Reverse. Then when put into Drive and trying to accelerate away, it felt like the brakes were on. Really had to press on the gas to finally get going.

Gosh I hope it's not the transmission. I was hoping to get another 2 years out of this car. But a broken automatic at 185,000 miles is not unusual.

Thinking I may flush back to Dex III tomorrow and cross my fingers.
Thoughts?





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