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You might try checking the vacuum hose from the intake air distributor (on fuel-injected models) to the transmission body. I had problems like yours and found that it was partially related to this hose. It's worth a try if you haven't already checked it. Later! Aaron >:) > '69Ó -----Original Message----- From: Sonny8oy@aol.com <Sonny8oy@aol.com> To: type3@vwtype3.org <type3@vwtype3.org> Date: Sunday, August 02, 1998 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [T3] auto kick-down switch >In a message dated 8/2/98 7:39:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time, gregm@vwtype3.org >writes: > ><< If you're driving around without your switch, you know what it's like when >it makes that shift into second waaaay too early. >> > >i have a switch, but also have these symptoms - guess i'll change it for the >spare one i have, see if it makes a difference. previously, was your car very >slow to kickdown, i.e. only if it really had to on a steep slope? > ><<Bentley says that with the kick-down engaged, that shift can occur anywhere >between 31-40mph>> > >mine won't even kick down into 2nd at that speed..... > ><<Where do other folks find that their auto trannies shift into second under >hard acceleration?>> > >no more than 10mph - way too early. haven't had more than 40mph out of second >either..... > >sonny > >------------------------------------------------------------------- >List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org >