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On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 06:41, jason.smith@sarcom.com wrote: > >>I think it is unlikely that your mechanic knows any more about your AT > than I do, and I don't know them well at all. > > I inquired further on why he thought that the tranny was 'shot'. He said > the it did not have 1st gear either, only 2nd. I asked how he came to that > conclusion and he said that he was cruising at 25-30 mph and he tried to > downshift to slow down , but it just stayed in the same gear. Well I guess > this guy knows absolutely zilch about tranny's in general. Correct me if I > am wrong, but just like a manual transmission, you cannot just down shift > into 1st going that speed. When I drove the car to the mechanic, I > downshifted to 1st the whole way to save using the brakes, but not untill I > got within the correct speed range. > Your automatic won't go into 1st gear if it will overspeed the engine. It was built that way. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT (It drove) '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/