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omara04
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Hi Guys
Hoping you can help me.
I've got a 2008 Evo X FQ300 TC-SST. Had it for coming on 3 years and I absolutely love the car, it's the best car I've ever owned. Up until this point it's been faultless as well (apart from an ABS sensor going last month but I've fixed that now)
Unfortunately this morning on the way to work I was driving along, relatively slowly and calmly in D (auto) when it suddenly had a bonkers moment and starting jumping up and down the gearbox and couldn't find any gear. It then lost all drive, and the MIL/CEL came on and on the multi display it said "check transmission" or such similar. I pulled over and stopped the engine immediately, gave it a minute and started again in case it was a sporadic error. This time, it immediately went to MIL/check transmission and would only give me first gear and would not change up at all. I managed to limp about 2miles to a safe place where I could leave the car (this was like 5am, nothing open etc.) and then came back to it later.
First thing I did was code read it and got these:
according to evoxservicemanuals.co.uk
P2809 - Clutch/shift solenoid 2 stuck open
P2733 - Clutch/shift solenoid 1 stuck open
P181E - Clutch 2 pressure low
I tried clearing the codes and then starting the engine again, still broken. You can feel the car urging forward (well trying) even when it's in park, so I think it's "stuck" in first gear.
It's taken all day (to 8pm) but I've finally got it recovered home (stupid AA, don't get me started on them, kept sending a bloke in a transit - "IT NEEDS A LOW LOADER" x4 conversations to people in call centres) and because someone had helpfully had taken the towing eye before i bought the car I had to drive it onto the low loader - which it did, after a fashion; but when we got home there was gearbox oil all over the truck's bed.
So - what now?
Dealer - not interested. All they will entertain is replacing the entire transmission assembly at a cost of £10k.
Auto Torque in Buckinghamshire were quite helpful on the phone, but the only options being a full strip and rebuild of my unit (£6k) or buy a 2nd hand one from them for £3k and hope that's OK.
Spoke to a guy in the US from Jackstransmissions.com and again, helpful and will rebuild the gearbox for US$ 2k, but shipping it over there would be a right headache. He said it sounds like the valve block/solenoids have packed up, part alone could be sourced but could be as much as US$2k and I'd still have to find someone over here to fit it and they need MUT3 to re-learn/re-teach the gear positions.
I'm absolutely gutted this has happened to my much beloved motor, but need to be realistic - can't sink masses of cash into it endlessly; still paying for the darn thing!!!
Can anyone help, shed some light; advise, or recommend anyone to speak to?
All suggestions received - thanks,
Steve
Hoping you can help me.
I've got a 2008 Evo X FQ300 TC-SST. Had it for coming on 3 years and I absolutely love the car, it's the best car I've ever owned. Up until this point it's been faultless as well (apart from an ABS sensor going last month but I've fixed that now)
Unfortunately this morning on the way to work I was driving along, relatively slowly and calmly in D (auto) when it suddenly had a bonkers moment and starting jumping up and down the gearbox and couldn't find any gear. It then lost all drive, and the MIL/CEL came on and on the multi display it said "check transmission" or such similar. I pulled over and stopped the engine immediately, gave it a minute and started again in case it was a sporadic error. This time, it immediately went to MIL/check transmission and would only give me first gear and would not change up at all. I managed to limp about 2miles to a safe place where I could leave the car (this was like 5am, nothing open etc.) and then came back to it later.
First thing I did was code read it and got these:
according to evoxservicemanuals.co.uk
P2809 - Clutch/shift solenoid 2 stuck open
P2733 - Clutch/shift solenoid 1 stuck open
P181E - Clutch 2 pressure low
I tried clearing the codes and then starting the engine again, still broken. You can feel the car urging forward (well trying) even when it's in park, so I think it's "stuck" in first gear.
It's taken all day (to 8pm) but I've finally got it recovered home (stupid AA, don't get me started on them, kept sending a bloke in a transit - "IT NEEDS A LOW LOADER" x4 conversations to people in call centres) and because someone had helpfully had taken the towing eye before i bought the car I had to drive it onto the low loader - which it did, after a fashion; but when we got home there was gearbox oil all over the truck's bed.
So - what now?
Dealer - not interested. All they will entertain is replacing the entire transmission assembly at a cost of £10k.
Auto Torque in Buckinghamshire were quite helpful on the phone, but the only options being a full strip and rebuild of my unit (£6k) or buy a 2nd hand one from them for £3k and hope that's OK.
Spoke to a guy in the US from Jackstransmissions.com and again, helpful and will rebuild the gearbox for US$ 2k, but shipping it over there would be a right headache. He said it sounds like the valve block/solenoids have packed up, part alone could be sourced but could be as much as US$2k and I'd still have to find someone over here to fit it and they need MUT3 to re-learn/re-teach the gear positions.
I'm absolutely gutted this has happened to my much beloved motor, but need to be realistic - can't sink masses of cash into it endlessly; still paying for the darn thing!!!
Can anyone help, shed some light; advise, or recommend anyone to speak to?
All suggestions received - thanks,
Steve
