On Friday night, a girl I talk to asked me what I would do if my Lincoln ever became undriveable (I had apparently neglected to tell her about my experiences with ball joints and broken timing chain tensioners and the fun my dad and I had fixing them). I began to tell her "that won't happen. the only thing that could now go wrong is the tran-." I stopped myself and knocked on wood 3 times.
Sunday night my 01 V8 began to have a slow engage in reverse.
I took it to one shop the next day where of course, after a free diagnosis, there were no definite answers and the solution was for a rebuild which would cost anywhere from $1650-2650, depending on how bad the damage was.
The shop I took it to yesterday & today said the car was not low on fluid, but did have burned fluid. They flushed and replaced it, the filter, and cleaned the pan for $150 (no mention of any shavings in the pan). The shop owner said that the service would likely not solve the problem, but would be credited towards me if I later opted for a rebuild, for which he quoted me $1700-1900, and mentioned I could make payments and have no interest if I pay it off in 90 days. He said he wouldn't want to throw a $300 dollar part like a solenoid at it only for it to not be the problem.
Now on here, after doing more reading. It seems like plenty related problems have been solved by changing the solenoid or pcm, and that suggested rebuilds were often not necessary. But I noticed in these threads that problems with shifting are different than mine, which only has a delayed reverse (and a somewhat hard shift when going from P-D).
Any advice? (I did try searching my symptoms on here but haven't found much )Thanks in advance for reading, and apologies for the long read.
Sidenote: After the service today, the car shifts much smoother. It wasn't bad before, but it did have a noticeable difference in how it went from 2nd-3rd that is now gone.
Sunday night my 01 V8 began to have a slow engage in reverse.
I took it to one shop the next day where of course, after a free diagnosis, there were no definite answers and the solution was for a rebuild which would cost anywhere from $1650-2650, depending on how bad the damage was.
The shop I took it to yesterday & today said the car was not low on fluid, but did have burned fluid. They flushed and replaced it, the filter, and cleaned the pan for $150 (no mention of any shavings in the pan). The shop owner said that the service would likely not solve the problem, but would be credited towards me if I later opted for a rebuild, for which he quoted me $1700-1900, and mentioned I could make payments and have no interest if I pay it off in 90 days. He said he wouldn't want to throw a $300 dollar part like a solenoid at it only for it to not be the problem.
Now on here, after doing more reading. It seems like plenty related problems have been solved by changing the solenoid or pcm, and that suggested rebuilds were often not necessary. But I noticed in these threads that problems with shifting are different than mine, which only has a delayed reverse (and a somewhat hard shift when going from P-D).
Any advice? (I did try searching my symptoms on here but haven't found much )Thanks in advance for reading, and apologies for the long read.
Sidenote: After the service today, the car shifts much smoother. It wasn't bad before, but it did have a noticeable difference in how it went from 2nd-3rd that is now gone.
not going to lie. i read the third one somewhere on here and tried before anything.
