samurai_schaefer
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I have a 98 civic that was having trouble with first gear slipping when I try to accelerate from a stop. I noticed when I put the car into D2 and drive it, there is no slipping. I was told it was the transmission that was going bad and took it to the shop to get looked at. The shop said the fluid was dirty, and they would like to do a flush, but with the vehicle having such high miles on it, the flush could also hurt the transmission.
I told them to do the flush anyway (actually I didn't catch them before they had already done the transmission flush, so they went ahead with it). Well, I talked to them after the flush, and the problem seems to be getting better from their test drives.
Now, my question is: why is the transmission seeming better after the flush when by all logical standards, flushing a transmission so old with so many miles on it would expect to see an increase in the slipping problem? Could this problem have been something else that the slipping would explain, and the flush would fix? Is this normal?
It is an automatic transmission, and the transmission was way over full at the time I brought it in.
It also has about 178,000
I have a 98 civic that was having trouble with first gear slipping when I try to accelerate from a stop. I noticed when I put the car into D2 and drive it, there is no slipping. I was told it was the transmission that was going bad and took it to the shop to get looked at. The shop said the fluid was dirty, and they would like to do a flush, but with the vehicle having such high miles on it, the flush could also hurt the transmission.
I told them to do the flush anyway (actually I didn't catch them before they had already done the transmission flush, so they went ahead with it). Well, I talked to them after the flush, and the problem seems to be getting better from their test drives.
Now, my question is: why is the transmission seeming better after the flush when by all logical standards, flushing a transmission so old with so many miles on it would expect to see an increase in the slipping problem? Could this problem have been something else that the slipping would explain, and the flush would fix? Is this normal?
It is an automatic transmission, and the transmission was way over full at the time I brought it in.
It also has about 178,000