So yesterday going to work, my car decides to die on me twice. Pulling into the parking lot, the car shaked and died, then start it back up so my sister can drive it back home, the car dies when put into gear. Hmmmm, I don't know whats up, but we gave teh dealership a call about that. Later that night, some idiot rear-ended her while she was sitting at the stop light. HE said he didnt see her, how cant u see a person sitting at the freaking stop light? Second time someone hit my car like that, the first time was some dumb idiot girl hit me at rotary and ran off and I caught up to her. I noticed people aren't able to see my car for some weird reason because I tend to get cut off like there's no tomorrow.


Sorry for the Rant,

 

do all yer lights work correctly? maybe theyre dim or something? that sucks **** bro. better luck once the dealership takes a look at it eh? thats odd just stalling like that.

 

Damn, Tak! I think God wants you to hurry up and buy a wingless Subaru WRX in Aspen White :twisted:

 

ur name is michael reyes? -_- high five dood im michael reyes also :D

 

Everything is fine, the car just decided to die a few times. It might be the cold weather we got here in Boston, but I warmed the car up before I left the house. I'm just going to bring it to the dealership for the hell of it as I have teh extended warranty anyways. I forgot to mention that my steering wheel shakes so bad at 80mph, probally in need of tires and aligment.

 

Last friday, my CEL (check engine light) decides to come on, so I limp my car back home during this downpour we had. So, the next day I noticed my tranny slips!@#%#$%#$ The car also bogs out, tranny shifts very hard and slips like crazy. At crusing speed, a slight tap and the rpm rises and if I step on it, it redlines for like 2 secs then shifts. The question here is this because of the CEL or my tranny is gone? I have an appointement with the dealer this tuesday and I haven't been able to go over my buddy's house to scan for error codes. Any help is very grateful..

Thanks,

 

yeah that sounds like the tranny, but dont worry man take it to the deal and theyll fix your problem, just make sure that when you leave its not acting the wasy it did. and you might wanna have someone drive it around before they fix it so they know whats going on.

 

Thanks for the support. I hope they will cover it under warranty as teh only mods I have are tein springs and painted valve cover. I have an appt. tomorrow, so I'll let a tech. drive it before they take into the garage. I'm going to scan to see what's the code from the CEL as I just got a OBD II scanner.

 

I just scanned for codes and one was found and it is...
P0741 Mod $10
Torque Converter
CKT Performance
or Stuck Off

 

so fixed under warranty right?they didnt think u dragged it or anything did they?

 

dood that sucks. it should be under warranty. hope they take care of it.

 

Thanks everyone, I went by todai (tomorrow is teh appt.) and talked to one of the tech to see if I'll be under warranty and I'm fine. Driving back home, the check engine light went off and the tranny shifts fine, WTF? I been driving it for last 2 hrs and light havent come back on or tranny slipping, and now I'm confused. I'm still going to get it checked out, but what sucks is they are still going to charge me $80 dollars for diagonstic fee to check for codes.

 

theye shouldnt. it's covered by warranty.

 

yeah they shouldnt chrage you anything dude

 

I'm going there tomorrow anways even though I think its fixed as CEL went off and it shifts fine. The tech. did mention about how the warranty could pay for my fee, but he didnt make it clear. He also tried to tell me that my springs could void my warranty (I know it does, but I mean as void my powertrain warranty to cover my tranny) , which I think is BS.

Thanks guys,

Voeun

 

Went to the dealer this morning and found out the tranny is messed up. The Toyota Rep. checked it out and said the tranny was used for performance and need to be replaced. So, they just ordered a brand new tranny for me and will be installed next week. All under warranty, but they said one shot deal as they gave me the .. Doubt (I cant find that word right now). I'm pretty happy to hear that they are replacing it, but I feel stupid for messing up the tranny though.

 

good job bro cus your getting it fixed and you get a brand new tranny...hehe, FYI they have to prove the springs caused the tranny to malfunction for it to void your warranty.

 

its good that they are covering it. also, i don't see how the springs would cause the tranny to malfuction.

 

I'm glad they are covering even though they found out it was abused or in their word, "USED FOR PERFORMANCE."

 

They have to replace it or prove you abused the tranny. Hard to do.
They shouldn't charge you for a diagnostic if your under warranty.
Stick up for your rights!