geekdrew
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- '99 XLS
Well... I just got the Explorer back from the shop. The radiator had a leak and the thermostat was bad. There was also an exhaust shield that they replaced. That's in response to this thread.
Anyway... the shop that my parents took it to (they took it for me one day) is near their house... 55 miles south of my house. I drove the explorer back home from the shop last night, and I thought that it drove very nicely.
I did notice that it was shifting much more smoothly than usual - before I had taken it in for repair, it shifted at what I thought was much lower RPMs than I liked, and it was sort-of jerky or rough about it. Last night I could still tell when it shifted but it was much smoother. It did it at higher RPMs than it had been before.
I park my Explorer on the street, as there is no room in the garage. When I was ready for work this morning, I pulled off of the street into the driveway, backed back out on to the street (doing this to turn around), and then put it back in drive. I went nowhere. The engine would speed up, but I didn't move. It was exactly like I was sitting in neutral. It wouldn't respond in R, D, or 2. I shifted down to 1, and then I was able to move (albeit slowly). I tried to go around the block, praying that it was just a fluke. While driving, I shifted from 1 to D and I kept going. I slowly gained speed, till I was around the point that it would normally shift up... and then I would just lose power - it seemed like I shifted into neutral. I could resume control once I was back down around 20 MPH or so. I stopped a couple of times, and I was able to get going in D again, but only until I hit the point when it would shift up.
I called the repair shop today, and asked them if they had any idea what could be doing it, and they said nothing they did could have caused it (they took it offensively, even though I didn't intend for them to), and he had no idea what could be causing the problem without looking at it.
Well, I'm not going to take the truck to a shop 55 miles away, when I can barely go above 20-25 MPH. It would be outrageously expensive to have it towed that far too. I'm going to see if anyone I know that is a mechanic will be able to come look at it and give me an idea of what's wrong.
But until I can coax someone into that... anyone have any ideas of what it could be?
Anyway... the shop that my parents took it to (they took it for me one day) is near their house... 55 miles south of my house. I drove the explorer back home from the shop last night, and I thought that it drove very nicely.
I did notice that it was shifting much more smoothly than usual - before I had taken it in for repair, it shifted at what I thought was much lower RPMs than I liked, and it was sort-of jerky or rough about it. Last night I could still tell when it shifted but it was much smoother. It did it at higher RPMs than it had been before.
I park my Explorer on the street, as there is no room in the garage. When I was ready for work this morning, I pulled off of the street into the driveway, backed back out on to the street (doing this to turn around), and then put it back in drive. I went nowhere. The engine would speed up, but I didn't move. It was exactly like I was sitting in neutral. It wouldn't respond in R, D, or 2. I shifted down to 1, and then I was able to move (albeit slowly). I tried to go around the block, praying that it was just a fluke. While driving, I shifted from 1 to D and I kept going. I slowly gained speed, till I was around the point that it would normally shift up... and then I would just lose power - it seemed like I shifted into neutral. I could resume control once I was back down around 20 MPH or so. I stopped a couple of times, and I was able to get going in D again, but only until I hit the point when it would shift up.
I called the repair shop today, and asked them if they had any idea what could be doing it, and they said nothing they did could have caused it (they took it offensively, even though I didn't intend for them to), and he had no idea what could be causing the problem without looking at it.
Well, I'm not going to take the truck to a shop 55 miles away, when I can barely go above 20-25 MPH. It would be outrageously expensive to have it towed that far too. I'm going to see if anyone I know that is a mechanic will be able to come look at it and give me an idea of what's wrong.
But until I can coax someone into that... anyone have any ideas of what it could be?
