townbiscuit
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Hey guys,
looking for a bit of advice - not long ago bought Grande Punto 1.4 8V with selespeed gearbox for my wife. All nice and dandy for a little while then the problems kicked in. Often 'check transmission' warning in the dash, won`t go into gear at times, won`t go into auto mode, but can only drive semi-auto but most of the times these things go away either with the erase of the error code or just by driving the car. So mostly intermittent faults we could say. Recently however my wife experiences the following - comes off the highway to a stop and car gets stuck in 5th or maybe 4th. when she tries to drive car stops (probably because she tries to drive it in 4th of 5th then takes a while to start - 3-4 tries maybe). Error codes range from gear selector error (paraphrasing, cant remember) to ECU problem etc. By reading through forums one likely possible cause seems to be the pressure accumulator, which I already bought. I used to work as a mechanic so I`m confident around a car, yet I do not know the steps required to change the accumulator. I would doubt it`s a just unscrew and replace operation. Anyone replaced a selespeed accumulator before? Could you please explain the procedure? Last question - my hydraulic unit is leaking oil. Not severely but it does. Is there an o'ring kit for it which can be bought?
Going through forums seems to me that this car is plagued with gearbox problems - i assume because of the shifting system which is crap?
Cheers.
looking for a bit of advice - not long ago bought Grande Punto 1.4 8V with selespeed gearbox for my wife. All nice and dandy for a little while then the problems kicked in. Often 'check transmission' warning in the dash, won`t go into gear at times, won`t go into auto mode, but can only drive semi-auto but most of the times these things go away either with the erase of the error code or just by driving the car. So mostly intermittent faults we could say. Recently however my wife experiences the following - comes off the highway to a stop and car gets stuck in 5th or maybe 4th. when she tries to drive car stops (probably because she tries to drive it in 4th of 5th then takes a while to start - 3-4 tries maybe). Error codes range from gear selector error (paraphrasing, cant remember) to ECU problem etc. By reading through forums one likely possible cause seems to be the pressure accumulator, which I already bought. I used to work as a mechanic so I`m confident around a car, yet I do not know the steps required to change the accumulator. I would doubt it`s a just unscrew and replace operation. Anyone replaced a selespeed accumulator before? Could you please explain the procedure? Last question - my hydraulic unit is leaking oil. Not severely but it does. Is there an o'ring kit for it which can be bought?
Going through forums seems to me that this car is plagued with gearbox problems - i assume because of the shifting system which is crap?
Cheers.