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| Thread ID: 145959 | 2018-03-17 06:36:00 | Auto transmission | prefect (6291) | PC World Chat |
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| 1447384 | 2018-03-18 06:41:00 | That is why I don't buy autos, they just cost heaps to fix. It took me 3 months to find my current ute as I was not going to buy an auto ranger.Good autos and bad autos. Just need to do your homework. But I am with you, much prefer manual but narrows down what you can buy | plod (107) | ||
| 1447385 | 2018-03-18 07:26:00 | That is why I don't buy autos, they just cost heaps to fix. It took me 3 months to find my current ute as I was not going to buy an auto ranger. I agree totally but my son who is a 3rd medical student and will be let loose with a scalpel one day could never learn to drive on a manual. It was painful teaching him to ride a bike and he bawled his eyes out when I took the training wheels off it. Other son completely different was if he was born to drive. So auto it will have to be. The one advantage of an old one is the auto are quite easy to change and can be bought from pick a part for bugger all. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1447386 | 2018-03-18 08:05:00 | There's very few people who can rebuild a tranny and find it easier to just replace it. I am not sure if a 96 had the settings in the computer but when you changed the ATF you had to reset the transmission in the computer because it learns your driving and it keeps to it, so fluid control is done by the computer. I also would change the ATF myself and go synthetic since its not waxy and it has better viscosity for cold engines. I would also give better indication of the issue, whether its going brown (burning) or the shift solenoid is not working properly. Sorry i've drank a few |
Kame (312) | ||
| 1447387 | 2018-03-18 09:37:00 | Yeah, I've had a number of Fords, and they all made this clunk. It was, as another poster said, simply taking up the slack in the system, specifically the differential. Once the slack is taken up using a forward gear, you can swap to any ofthe forward gear without a clunk, or to N or P and back to a forward gear without a clunk, but switch to R and it'll clunk. Then from R to P or N and back to R will no longer clunk, but will again clunk when taking up that next forward gear. If you lift up a drive wheel and turn it by hand you can reproduce the same clunk, and you can see the the process of the load moving through the diff, then clunking once the load goes onto the opposite wheel. It was never an issue for me, and I keep cars for a decade at a time. Mind though, I was always cautious to let the system take up the slack before applying any throttle, so always a light clunk, not a hard clunk. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1447388 | 2018-03-18 19:30:00 | There is nothing wrong with having an auto. In auckland traffic it is actually good idea. Just don't buy one with issues, whatever they are. Test it, you can google that if you don't know what to look for when test driving. And clunks. Forget it. You don't rebuild them, you toss the car and get another. So buy one with a decent one to start with, check the fluid too. We always did the manual thing until we moved back. I killed a few clutches....and a couple of gearboxes. Don't ride the clutch!! Yeah, but in gear, out of gear, in gear, out of gear every car length or two on the slow crawl home doesn't do it much good either. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1447389 | 2018-03-18 20:32:00 | Ive never owned an auto either I preferred the reliability & long life & driving experience of manual ... although Ive have worn clutches to deal with on 3 of my cars :) New clutch is cheaper than auto reconditioning Manuals are quite hard to find on ex Jap imports though. When stuck in traffic for an hour , 1st & 2nd gear ,often makes me wonder if a manual is suited to city driving . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1447390 | 2018-03-18 22:40:00 | I was raised with my parents dislike of Autos, but after owning a few and getting used to it I think I prefer them now. I just did a count, I'm on my 8th car and 4 of them have been Autos. At high mileage they are more likely to cost you money than a manual, but a modern auto lasts pretty well. I've had 2 fail on me in my life, one the whole car was junk from the start (sunbird) and the other just wore out at 100,000 km (84 corolla) and cost about $1k to fix way back then. The dog & lemon guide has a warning on Auto transmissions I will see if I can scan it and post. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1447391 | 2018-03-18 23:13:00 | We had mostly auto cars, yeah hard to find with JP imports. No issues really. We buy it when there is no problems and maybe we been lucky the others are not really into maintenance. They just change the engine oil and filter and when it is too bad they flick it off and buy another import. They have an outdated view maybe. Weird. They think they will skip that 5 yearly transmission service and the belts and then umm .. just buy another $6-8k used JP import. Euro cars need to have the trans fluid pump into it from the bottom up to we get it done outside $300-400. JP cars may have a dipstick that you just pour it in with a funnel. The oil can be drained off like engine oil and if you want you can pop the cover and change the filter. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1447392 | 2018-03-19 02:05:00 | Here it is, best I can manage without re typing it. 8736 |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1447393 | 2018-03-19 04:04:00 | Here it is, best I can manage without re typing it. 8736 Thank you for this dug and others, off to look at car 2 in a couple of hours. |
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