justthesix
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- 01' Mustang/08' Explorer
Hello everybody! This is my first time posting to this forum as I'm a newbie. I recently purchased an 08' Explorer V6 and it seems to be having some odd transmission behavior and I was looking for some help.
Just reached 100k miles - I am the second owner and the previous owner had a small business they ran and it was used as a company vehicle (owner was very meticulous about standard maintenance.) He said it was used for company business travel, some in town driving (30-45 mph,) but a lot of highway driving (65+ mph.) When I took it on a test drive the temperature on the dash was on C and I didn't notice anything odd, but after taking it for a quick test drive I guess the transmission wasn't to full operating temperature and this is why I didn't likely notice what I'm about to explain until after it got up to operating temperature.
When the vehicle has just been started from a cold start and driven the transmission seems to respond fine. After the vehicle gets up to operating temperature I notice a sort of shudder, only between 2nd to 3rd and 3rd to 4th gears. If I lightly feather into acceleration it shudders (hard shifts?) into the next gear harder then if I give it moderate acceleration. Also, if I put it into park and immediately put it back into reverse without taking my foot off the pedal it shifts hard into reverse and is a couple seconds delayed in response. It doesn't appear to be slipping and I am not smelling any funky odors and the transmission isn't making any noises itself, but this concerns me. I do not have any codes stored in the ECM as I checked it with my code scanner.
I did research and apparently Ford says this is a sealed transmission that isn't supposed to ever need a transmission fluid change.. I understand that a sealed system isn't exposed to other elements that a conventional one is, but in a conventional transmission system fluid intervals seem to vary between 30k to 50k miles on a lot of other makes of vehicles. I am interested to know if anybody else has/had this issue or knows what causes it and if anybody has any recommendations or possible solutions.
Anything would be kindly appreciated
Just reached 100k miles - I am the second owner and the previous owner had a small business they ran and it was used as a company vehicle (owner was very meticulous about standard maintenance.) He said it was used for company business travel, some in town driving (30-45 mph,) but a lot of highway driving (65+ mph.) When I took it on a test drive the temperature on the dash was on C and I didn't notice anything odd, but after taking it for a quick test drive I guess the transmission wasn't to full operating temperature and this is why I didn't likely notice what I'm about to explain until after it got up to operating temperature.
When the vehicle has just been started from a cold start and driven the transmission seems to respond fine. After the vehicle gets up to operating temperature I notice a sort of shudder, only between 2nd to 3rd and 3rd to 4th gears. If I lightly feather into acceleration it shudders (hard shifts?) into the next gear harder then if I give it moderate acceleration. Also, if I put it into park and immediately put it back into reverse without taking my foot off the pedal it shifts hard into reverse and is a couple seconds delayed in response. It doesn't appear to be slipping and I am not smelling any funky odors and the transmission isn't making any noises itself, but this concerns me. I do not have any codes stored in the ECM as I checked it with my code scanner.
I did research and apparently Ford says this is a sealed transmission that isn't supposed to ever need a transmission fluid change.. I understand that a sealed system isn't exposed to other elements that a conventional one is, but in a conventional transmission system fluid intervals seem to vary between 30k to 50k miles on a lot of other makes of vehicles. I am interested to know if anybody else has/had this issue or knows what causes it and if anybody has any recommendations or possible solutions.
Anything would be kindly appreciated