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madza


Sent to Car Experts April 01, 2006 10:12 a.m.
My engine light came on so I took it in to the dealer. They said it was carbon in my ?? ( can not think of the part name but it was $402..my paperwork is in car and car is at garage)and I needed new a new one and I also needed to have a fuel system FLUSHED ($159)to get the carbon out. I agreed and had the work done.I got the car back and that night after driving about 70 miles something strange happened. When I started off from a stop light ...the car jumped as if I had it in neutral / accelerated and put it in drive. Never had that before. It did that two more times that night. The next day I took it to where I have my cars serviced (not the dealer that did the work) and they said it could be the throttle cable in a bind ....and when the dealership did the fuel carbon cleaning they may have caused the throttle to do this. WHAT DO I KNOW!!
I left there to go home(about 10 miles away) with the intentions of taking the car back to the dealership(30 miles away) on Monday but I had a few things to do in town first before I went home. Here is the bad part....about 8 miles later while still driving in town (about 8 -10mph) the car jammed down like I had slammed on brakes. I put it in neutral waited a few seconds --in shock-- and put it back in drive and started off again...I went about 15 yards
and the front end dropped down again as if braking...the transmission was in a terrible bind... I put it back in neutral and waited a few minutes/ looked under the hood..and decided to go to my service garage that was two blocks away(thank goodness). All I could do was a few yards at a time and the transmission went into a bind making me stop. My service man tried it and said it acted like a sensor problem on the transmission putting the car in two gears at once?? Electrical/ sensor /???? He said it would do it when I let off the gas ?
Does this make any sense at all? My car has 161,000 and "did" drive like a dream. It is not a turbo charged motor. Is this going to be a big $$$$ for me? What do sensors cost (if that is the case) and how many does the transmission have?
Thanks for you help and advice ... Fred Love, NC
Customer (name blocked for privacy)
Status: Closed   Value: $15   
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April 01, 2006 11:01 a.m. (49 minutes and 15 seconds later)
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