Help Needed Auto Transmission

jmaynard · Post by **jmaynard** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:45 pm

hey guys,

Had my FTO for a few months now. However, the other day when I was driving it would just drop back gears erraticaly say from 4 to 3rd with no reason. I left the car for a while a few hours. I got back in and it seemed to function normally until the first few km.

Then the transmission jumped straight into 3rd gear and the N light flash whilst driving.

it doesnt matter if i'm driving in sports mode it will let me change into third then the N light just flashes

On close inspection there seems to be a transmision fluid on top of the transmission underneath the air filter box.

I'm going to take the car to mitsubishi to check over but does any one have any ideas?

Post by **Bennoz** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:47 pm

When it drops into 3rd all the time, its going into 'limp' mode... which means there's a problem.

http://www.ftoaustralia.com/modules.php ... ic&t=10412

khunjeng · Post by **khunjeng** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:28 pm

ya u have an issue...need to check the codes.

jmaynard · Post by **jmaynard** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:10 pm

Hello Again,

I took the car to Newcastle Mitsubishi who think its the tranmission fluid causing the car to do this???

I'm not so sure as I have driven a couple of 1000 K's and only now it seems to play up.

Does anyone on here think it could be the fluid?

They will charge $200 to drain

Any help would be great or maybe some recomendations on where to take it

khunjeng · Post by **khunjeng** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:01 am

jmaynard wrote:Hello Again,

I took the car to Newcastle Mitsubishi who think its the tranmission fluid causing the car to do this???

I'm not so sure as I have driven a couple of 1000 K's and only now it seems to play up.

Does anyone on here think it could be the fluid?

They will charge $200 to drain

Any help would be great or maybe some recomendations on where to take it

thats just crap

change it urself there is a guide here. Not very hard I can tell u how to do it.

U wont get all fluid on the first chnage..will need ot for it 3 times...but wont take long.

The fluid from Mitsi is not exp. either.

Do it urself and save some bucks.

Nacho · Post by **Nacho** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:02 pm

First thing to look at would be the sensors. This is a very common problems with FTOs.